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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. Where does David go on the bus every day?
(a) School.
(b) Work.
(c) The methadone clinic.
(d) Fellis's house.

2. In the context of "Burn," what is the most likely meaning of the term "skeejin" (1)?
(a) Person with a substance use disorder.
(b) Native or indigenous person.
(c) Young adult or teenager.
(d) Person lacking economic means.

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," how has David been making money?
(a) Government disability checks.
(b) Selling porcupine carcasses.
(c) Selling marijuana.
(d) Working as a landscaper.

4. 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.

5. What is Fellis's mother's name?
(a) Mary.
(b) Sadie.
(c) Laura.
(d) Beth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What selfless gesture does David make to comfort Fellis?

2. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does David use as a symbol of the unhappiness in his household?

3. What technique is used when David hears the sound of a man moaning and he says "with my cold ear I followed it" (2)?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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