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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does David learn for the first time about his own birth?
(a) His parents did not plan to have him and did not really want him.
(b) His mother's postpartum depression after his birth caused her to get her tubes tied.
(c) He was supposed to be one of a pair of twins.
(d) His birth caused his mother to hemorrhage and nearly die.

2. In "In a Jar," what happens to David's medicine pouch?
(a) It goes through the wash with his shirt and falls apart.
(b) He gives it to Paige to protect the baby.
(c) It gets wedged between the bed and the wall.
(d) He loses it when he is outside playing.

3. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does Frick dislike about the birthday present David's father has given him?
(a) He associates it with white children.
(b) He thinks that David will hurt himself with it.
(c) He thinks it is too babyish for David.
(d) He thinks it is too expensive.

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

5. 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 wants to know why he smells like tobacco smoke.
(c) She is concerned about the noises he was making in his sleep.
(d) She needs to borrow five dollars for gas money.

6. In "In a Jar," when Paige and her mother get into an argument about her pregnancy, what prediction does Paige make?
(a) David will grow up to hate their mother.
(b) Paige's baby will never know its grandmother.
(c) Their mother's temper will drive Frick away just like their father.
(d) Their mother's use of alcohol will cause her early death.

7. When "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars" takes place, how long has David been seeing Tabitha?
(a) Four months.
(b) Two months.
(c) Three months.
(d) One month.

8. During the action of "Get Me Some Medicine," where is it implied that David's mother is?
(a) Frick's hunting camp.
(b) Paige's house.
(c) A substance abuse clinic.
(d) Visiting relatives down south.

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

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

11. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what question does Frick ask David when David comes in to sit on the couch in the middle of the night?
(a) Whether he wants a cigarette.
(b) Why he is out of bed.
(c) Whether there is any wine left.
(d) What is wrong with his grandmother.

12. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what is David's mother too preoccupied with to notice that David is feeling sick?
(a) Selling her jewelry.
(b) Talking on the phone.
(c) Looking for a job.
(d) Her fight with Frick.

13. What selfless gesture does David make to comfort Fellis?
(a) He covers Fellis's hair with his own hat.
(b) He offers to buy Fellis marijuana.
(c) He gives Fellis his own coat.
(d) He offers to cut his own hair.

14. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what does David say he and Fellis usually use for gambling chips?
(a) Buttons.
(b) Spaghetti.
(c) Beans.
(d) Paperclips.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)?

3. When "Get Me Some Medicine" begins, how long has it been since David last spoke to his father?

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

5. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," why is David so quick to agree to take Fellis to his frequent mental health appointments?

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