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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) They remind Frick of David's mother's life before him.
(c) He hates their biological father.
(d) They are half white.

2. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what is David's reaction when the janitor says that he might come to the reservation to see the caterpillars?
(a) He does not think the reservation needs more curious outsiders to visit.
(b) He wishes that he felt as curious and motivated as the janitor seems to feel.
(c) He is intrigued that someone from Overtown is willing to come to the reservation.
(d) He does not think the caterpillars are interesting enough to come see.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is employed when David says that "the river was still frozen, ice shining white-blue under a full moon" (1)?

2. What is Fellis's mother's name?

3. Why is Fellis feeling so sick?

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

5. In "Get Me Some Medicine," how has David been making money?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "In a Jar," what is implied to have happened to Paige at the end of the story?

2. In "In a Jar," what is in the jar David finds, and why does it upset his mother?

3. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what is the rhetorical function of the passage where David considers whom he should "smoke like" (108)?

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what are David's mother's and David's grandmother's opposing opinions about telling Frick about the hysterectomy?

5. In "In a Jar," what does David's mother tell him about Goog'ooks?

6. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does David do after the argument between Frick and his mother about the headstone?

7. In "Get Me Some Medicine," which behaviors of Fellis's indicate that he has a habit of blaming others for his problems?

8. In "The Blessing Tobacco," how does David end up smoking cigarettes at his grandmother's house?

9. What irritates David about the questions the hospital staff keeps asking him while he is waiting for Fellis in "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars"?

10. In "The Blessing Tobacco," where does David get a drink on his way home from his grandmother's, and what is the significance of this?

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