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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 technique is used in David's paraphrase of Fellis's questions: "How much he pays. How much he makes" (44)?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Antistrophe.

2. In "In a Jar," what is the most likely motivation for Paige calling David "chagooksis...little shit" (15)?
(a) She is tired of being responsible for her younger sibling.
(b) She is engaging in affectionate teasing.
(c) She is angry at the mischief David causes.
(d) She is irritable and tired because of her pregnancy.

3. In "In a Jar," what kind of feather does Frick use in the smudging ceremony?
(a) Heron.
(b) Owl.
(c) Eagle.
(d) Hawk.

4. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what technique is used in the naming of Fellis's truck, "Einhell"?
(a) Synecdoche.
(b) Verbal Irony.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Synesthesia.

5. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," why do Fellis and David smoke cigars in the truck on the way home?
(a) They are trying to mask the terrible smell of the caterpillars.
(b) They are trying to settle their stomachs after being sick earlier.
(c) They are rewarding themselves for not stopping to get alcohol on the way home.
(d) They are celebrating the end of the first phase of Fellis's treatments.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In a Jar," what is David's reaction to the medicine pouch that Frick gives him?

2. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," who repeatedly calls Fellis's house?

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what task has Beth asked Fellis to take care of for her?

4. In "In a Jar," what happens to David's medicine pouch?

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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," why does Fellis get so angry at David for saying that Meekew could beat Fellis in a fistfight?

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

8. In "Burn," what does the reservation doctor tell David he is ineligible for, and what does David see this as an example of?

9. In "Burn," how dis Fellis end up stuck in the snow?

10. 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?

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