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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Fellis feeling so sick?
(a) He is exhausted and hypothermic.
(b) He has taken an unnamed street drug.
(c) He missed his methadone dose.
(d) He has a respiratory virus.

2. In "The Blessing Tobacco," how does David's grandmother react when the first puff of the cigarette makes him cough?
(a) She laughs in surprise.
(b) She tells him to stop smoking it.
(c) She tells him to stop pretending.
(d) She shows him how to inhale without coughing.

3. To what does David compare Fellis when he sees him struggling to sit up?
(a) A seal flopping onto an ice floe.
(b) A fish hauled into the bottom of a rowboat.
(c) A person who is too heavily intoxicated to get up unassisted.
(d) A person exhausted from too much abdominal exercise.

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what technique is used when David says that when he returns to the kitchen, "all that remained at the table was the rest of the coffee and a freshly snubbed-out cigarette that glowed red int he ashtray" (66)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Synecdoche.

5. When "Get Me Some Medicine" begins, how long has it been since David last spoke to his father?
(a) Nine years.
(b) Four years.
(c) Four months.
(d) Nine months.

6. What does David imagine the store owner, Jim, making a joke about?
(a) Fellis's hair looking like an old mop.
(b) Paying for Native scalps.
(c) Wet hair making a mess.
(d) David being a hair stylist.

7. What technique is used when David hears the sound of a man moaning and he says "with my cold ear I followed it" (2)?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Verbal irony.
(d) Understatement.

8. In "The Blessing Tobacco," why is Paige in David's room when he wakes up from his nap?
(a) She wants to talk to him about their grandmother.
(b) She is concerned about the noises he was making in his sleep.
(c) She wants to know why he smells like tobacco smoke.
(d) She needs to borrow five dollars for gas money.

9. What does David keep in the black plastic tub?
(a) Crayons.
(b) Trading cards.
(c) Marbles.
(d) Toy figures.

10. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what does David compare the hospital hallways to?
(a) Tree roots.
(b) The Minotaur's maze.
(c) A rabbit's warren.
(d) Spider legs.

11. In "Get Me Some Medicine," how has David been making money?
(a) Government disability checks.
(b) Working as a landscaper.
(c) Selling marijuana.
(d) Selling porcupine carcasses.

12. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what causes David to finally run from his grandmother's house?
(a) He is afraid that his grandmother will become violent.
(b) He is worried about being in trouble for smoking.
(c) He feels too sick to keep smoking.
(d) He realizes that it is time to be home for dinner.

13. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what does David's grandmother offer him after she offers him a cigarette?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Juice.
(c) Milk.
(d) Beer.

14. In "Food for the Common Cold," what are Frick and David's mother arguing about besides the old graveyard?
(a) Frick's drinking habits.
(b) Frick's desire to have another child.
(c) Frick's treatment of David.
(d) David's mother's suspicion that Frick is cheating on her.

15. In "The Blessing Tobacco," where is Paige working?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) The liquor store.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) A pawnshop.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what television show do David and Fellis watch while Beth makes dinner?

2. In "The Blessing Tobacco," whom does David's grandmother mistake him for?

3. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what does the burning chicken casserole demonstrate about the characters' lives?

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what happens on the Thursday of the week that Frick stays away from David's mother's house?

5. In "In a Jar," what is David's reaction to the medicine pouch that Frick gives him?

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