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

2. In "In a Jar," where does Frick place the yellow straw wrapped in red cloth?
(a) Underneath David's bed.
(b) Above the door.
(c) Behind the front step.
(d) On David's windowsill.

3. In "In a Jar," what technique is used when David describes church: "When we had to kneel, we knelt; when we had to sing, we sang; when we had to pray, we prayed" (20)?
(a) Anadiplosis.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Parallelism.

4. In "The Blessing Tobacco," where do the tribal police find David's grandmother?
(a) By the river.
(b) In a stranger's house.
(c) In the old graveyard.
(d) In the woods.

5. 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 is intrigued that someone from Overtown is willing to come to the reservation.
(c) He wishes that he felt as curious and motivated as the janitor seems to feel.
(d) He does not think the caterpillars are interesting enough to come see.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. In "Food for the Common Cold," what new information is revealed about Paige?

4. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what does the burning chicken casserole demonstrate about the characters' lives?

5. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," who is Alice?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what does David try over and over to do on the way home from his grandmother's house, and what is the significance of this?

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. 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"?

4. In "Burn," why was David's first trip into town to get marijuana unsuccessful?

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

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

10. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what does David point to as the beginning of the breakdown in his relationship with Tabitha?

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