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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 "Get Me Some Medicine," what reason does Fellis give David for dropping out of college?
(a) He only enrolled so that he could drop out and get a refund check.
(b) He only enrolled to get his mother to stop nagging him about his future.
(c) He was frustrated and embarrassed at his own poor education.
(d) He was harassed by white students and subjected to racial slurs.

2. In "Food for the Common Cold," what technique is used when David says that when he returns to the kitchen, "all that remained at the table was the rest of the coffee and a freshly snubbed-out cigarette that glowed red int he ashtray" (66)?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Personification.

3. 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.
(c) David's mother.
(d) David's grandmother.

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

5. In "Food for the Common Cold," how old is David?
(a) 7.
(b) 11.
(c) 13.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In a Jar," what is the most likely motivation for Paige calling David "chagooksis...little shit" (15)?

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

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

4. In "In a Jar," when Paige first arrives, what does David realize their mother has not told Paige about?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Which details does Talty include in "In a Jar" that make clear to the reader that David's life before the reservation did not include many other Native people?

2. 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?

3. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," how does Alice end up at Beth's house?

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

5. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," how does David use the layout of the hospital as a metaphor for the human mind?

6. In "Food for the Common Cold," what reason does Frick give for wanting to tear the headstone down, and what commentary does David offer about this?

7. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the difference between the way the adult narrator David and the child David in the story see the mood in the household during the week that Frick is gone?

8. 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"?

9. In "Burn," what does Fellis asks David to do when he goes back to town to get marijuana, beer, and chips, and why does Fellis ask David to do this?

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

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