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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what is the colloquial name used for the kind of beers that are in the bag when David hits Meekew?
(a) Tall boys.
(b) Pounders.
(c) Two-fours.
(d) Tinnies.

2. In "In a Jar," why does David struggle to remember the details of the move to the reservation?
(a) It was a long time ago.
(b) He had a high fever during the move.
(c) He is too young to understand what is happening.
(d) He was asleep for most of the move.

3. What is the implied reason that Fellis's lip is purple?
(a) He has been in a fight.
(b) He is sick.
(c) He is wearing lipstick.
(d) He is very cold.

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does David use as a symbol of the unhappiness in his household?
(a) The scarcity of food.
(b) The crooked door.
(c) The crumbling steps.
(d) The smoke from the stove.

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

6. In "Food for the Common Cold," what new information is revealed about Paige?
(a) After a fight with her mother, she has gone back to live with her father.
(b) Unable to get along with Frick, she now lives with her grandmother.
(c) She has disappeared from their lives, having taken off after losing another baby.
(d) She has moved into Overtown to attend the community college there.

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

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

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

10. In the context of "Burn," what is the most likely meaning of the term "skeejin" (1)?
(a) Young adult or teenager.
(b) Person lacking economic means.
(c) Native or indigenous person.
(d) Person with a substance use disorder.

11. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what does the reader learn David's grandmother's first name is?
(a) Frances.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Josie.
(d) Lilith.

12. In "Food for the Common Cold," who is the first person to notice the strange smell in David's mother's house?
(a) Frick.
(b) David's grandmother.
(c) David.
(d) David's mother.

13. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the cause of the terrible smell in David's mother's house?
(a) No one has taken out the garbage in several weeks.
(b) Someone has stuffed a rotten fish under the stoop.
(c) A turtle has crawled under the house and died.
(d) The drains are clogged with uneaten food.

14. In "Food for the Common Cold," what gift has David recently been given by his father?
(a) A basketball.
(b) A toy truck.
(c) An air rifle.
(d) A slingshot.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the action of "Get Me Some Medicine," where is it implied that David's mother is?

2. In "In a Jar," what happens to Paige on the night the siblings hear the knocking in the walls?

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," when the lights go on in the bar, what does David notice?

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does David's grandmother imply is the reason Frick does not accept David and Paige as his own children?

5. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is revealed about how Frick's daughter died?

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