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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," why is David so quick to agree to take Fellis to his frequent mental health appointments?
(a) He is desperate to see his friend feeling better.
(b) He wants to get away from Tabitha's apartment.
(c) He feels indebted to Beth for acting as his second mother.
(d) He needs the money that Beth offers him.

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

3. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what has David been sent to his grandmother's for?
(a) To fill the wood box.
(b) To do dishes and take out garbage.
(c) To escort her to his mother's house.
(d) To accompany her to the grocery store.

4. By the end of "Food for the Common Cold," what do Frick and David understand about David's mother for the first time?
(a) Why she feels so insecure about her position in the tribe.
(b) Why she is so attached to the old graveyard.
(c) Why she is so angry at the way Paige has chosen to grieve.
(d) Why she refuses to attend church with her own mother.

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

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

7. 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) Tinnies.
(b) Two-fours.
(c) Pounders.
(d) Tall boys.

8. What technique is used when David asks Fellis if Fellis wants him to "Tell the ice to let go" (3)?
(a) Verbal irony.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Personification.

9. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," where is David trying to get a job?
(a) Tribal Maintenance.
(b) UPS.
(c) T.J. Maxx.
(d) Family Dollar.

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

11. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what television show have David and Fellis been watching?
(a) The Wire.
(b) Breaking Bad.
(c) Ozark.
(d) The Sopranos.

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

13. In "In a Jar," what happens to Paige on the night the siblings hear the knocking in the walls?
(a) She falls down the front steps.
(b) She is bitten on the leg.
(c) She gets food poisoning.
(d) She takes an accidental overdose.

14. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what technique is used in the naming of Fellis's truck, "Einhell"?
(a) Synecdoche.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Verbal Irony.
(d) Hyperbole.

15. In "The Blessing Tobacco," how old does David say his great-uncle was when he died?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Twenty-four.
(d) Twenty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," why do Fellis and David smoke cigars in the truck on the way home?

3. What does David's mother collect?

4. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what does David say he finds mysterious about Fellis?

5. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what is David's mother too preoccupied with to notice that David is feeling sick?

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