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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 does David say he and Fellis usually use for gambling chips?
(a) Buttons.
(b) Paperclips.
(c) Beans.
(d) Spaghetti.

2. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what does the reader learn David's grandmother's first name is?
(a) Josie.
(b) Frances.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Lilith.

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

4. What is the name of the marijuana dealer whom David goes into town to see?
(a) Ham.
(b) Rab.
(c) Stu.
(d) Bob.

5. Why is Fellis feeling so sick?
(a) He missed his methadone dose.
(b) He has a respiratory virus.
(c) He is exhausted and hypothermic.
(d) He has taken an unnamed street drug.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does Frick dislike about the birthday present David's father has given him?

3. Where does David go on the bus every day?

4. In the context of "Burn," what is the most likely meaning of the term "skeejin" (1)?

5. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what does David say he finds mysterious about Fellis?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In "Get Me Some Medicine," how do David and Fellis end up binge-watching an old television series?

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 does David do after the argument between Frick and his mother about the headstone?

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

9. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what details demonstrate that David's friendship with Fellis does not blind David to Fellis's faults?

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

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