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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," what does David's grandmother imply is the reason Frick does not accept David and Paige as his own children?
(a) They do not really love Frick.
(b) They remind Frick of David's mother's life before him.
(c) He hates their biological father.
(d) They are half white.

2. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the name of the child in the pictures David's mother finds?
(a) Corinne.
(b) Julianne.
(c) Deidre.
(d) Elspeth.

3. 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.

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," how old is David?
(a) 7.
(b) 11.
(c) 9.
(d) 13.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In "The Blessing Tobacco," where do the tribal police find David's grandmother?

4. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what television show do David and Fellis watch while Beth makes dinner?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In "The Blessing Tobacco," where does David get a drink on his way home from his grandmother's, and what is the significance of this?

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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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