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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 has taken an unnamed street drug.
(b) He has a respiratory virus.
(c) He missed his methadone dose.
(d) He is exhausted and hypothermic.

2. 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.

3. 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 loses it when he is outside playing.
(c) It gets wedged between the bed and the wall.
(d) He gives it to Paige to protect the baby.

4. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what technique is used when David comments that he "wondered when Grammy would send her last message" (117)?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Situational irony.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Apostrophe.

5. 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 treatment of David.
(c) David's mother's suspicion that Frick is cheating on her.
(d) Frick's desire to have another child.

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 technique is used in "Get Me Some Medicine," when David says that "the lights were dim like honey" (41)?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Simile.

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

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

10. What is Fellis's mother's name?
(a) Mary.
(b) Laura.
(c) Sadie.
(d) Beth.

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

12. 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?
(a) They do not really love Frick.
(b) He hates their biological father.
(c) They remind Frick of David's mother's life before him.
(d) They are half white.

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

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

15. In "The Blessing Tobacco," whom does David's grandmother mistake him for?
(a) Fellis.
(b) Frick.
(c) Robbie.
(d) David's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David's mother collect?

2. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what does David's grandmother offer him after she offers him a cigarette?

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

4. In "The Blessing Tobacco," where do the tribal police find David's grandmother?

5. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what movie are Fellis and David supposed to return?

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