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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what is one thematic point reinforced when Fellis cannot return the movie he was supposed to return?
(a) The relationship between David and Fellis is dysfunctional and contributes to their unhappiness.
(b) Fellis's unhappiness is directly related to his inability to follow through on his goals.
(c) For Fellis, happiness is not an abstraction but a concrete, almost physical thing.
(d) The price of Fellis's happiness is losing some of his capacity for memory.

3. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the name of the child in the pictures David's mother finds?
(a) Deidre.
(b) Elspeth.
(c) Julianne.
(d) Corinne.

4. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what technique is used in David's paraphrase of Fellis's questions: "How much he pays. How much he makes" (44)?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Antistrophe.

5. In "In a Jar," what is the most likely motivation for Paige calling David "chagooksis...little shit" (15)?
(a) She is irritable and tired because of her pregnancy.
(b) She is angry at the mischief David causes.
(c) She is tired of being responsible for her younger sibling.
(d) She is engaging in affectionate teasing.

6. What technique is employed when David says that "the river was still frozen, ice shining white-blue under a full moon" (1)?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Hyperbole.

7. In "Get Me Some Medicine," why does Fellis leave the bag of beers in the woods?
(a) He does not want his addiction counselor to see him with beer.
(b) He is planning ahead for the assault on Meekew.
(c) He is worried that David will drink them all.
(d) He does not want to try to take them into the bar.

8. How does David imagine feeling when he returns to Rab's?
(a) Triumphant.
(b) Embarrassed.
(c) Frustrated.
(d) Defensive.

9. What technique is used when David says that no one has shoveled "since the last nor'easter crapped snow in November" (1)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Sarcasm.

10. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," why do Fellis and David smoke cigars in the truck on the way home?
(a) They are rewarding themselves for not stopping to get alcohol on the way home.
(b) They are trying to settle their stomachs after being sick earlier.
(c) They are trying to mask the terrible smell of the caterpillars.
(d) They are celebrating the end of the first phase of Fellis's treatments.

11. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what task has Beth asked Fellis to take care of for her?
(a) Mailing a letter.
(b) Checking on an elderly neighbor.
(c) Washing a load of laundry.
(d) Taking out the garbage.

12. In "In a Jar," what technique is used when David describes church: "When we had to kneel, we knelt; when we had to sing, we sang; when we had to pray, we prayed" (20)?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Anadiplosis.
(d) Antithesis.

13. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what movie are Fellis and David supposed to return?
(a) Inception.
(b) The Martian.
(c) Transcendence.
(d) The Matrix.

14. 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) Synecdoche.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metaphor.

15. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," where does David say he met Tabitha?
(a) The bus.
(b) The bar.
(c) The clinic.
(d) Her job.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what is the real cause for Fellis dropping out of college?

2. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what technique is used in the naming of Fellis's truck, "Einhell"?

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

4. In "The Blessing Tobacco," how old does David say his great-uncle was when he died?

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

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