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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 "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," who is Alice?
(a) A friend of David's mother.
(b) A nurse at the hospital.
(c) Tabitha's friend.
(d) Fellis's aunt.

2. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is revealed about how Frick's daughter died?
(a) She had an asthma attack after being out in the woods in winter for several hours.
(b) She was in Frick's truck when it was hit by another vehicle.
(c) She had a serious respiratory virus that Frick ignored until it was too late.
(d) She developed a rare form of childhood cancer.

3. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what does David compare the hospital hallways to?
(a) A rabbit's warren.
(b) Tree roots.
(c) The Minotaur's maze.
(d) Spider legs.

4. In "The Blessing Tobacco," why does David hurry to fill his grandmother's wood box?
(a) He is worried about having to walk home in the dark.
(b) He is tired of people thinking that he is lazy.
(c) He is frightened and trying to get away quickly.
(d) He is embarrassed that he forgot to do it on his first trip.

5. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what technique is used when David comments that he "wondered when Grammy would send her last message" (117)?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Situational irony.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In a Jar," what technique is used when David says that the burning sage "smelled calm, like salt water" (10)?

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?

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

4. In "Get Me Some Medicine," when the lights go on in the bar, what does David notice?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In "The Blessing Tobacco," when David is feeling sick, how does Paige demonstrate her concern and affection?

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

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

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

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

6. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what is the rhetorical purpose of the story's ambiguous ending?

7. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what is Fellis's ostensible issue with Meekew, and what does the story imply is his real issue?

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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