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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 "Earth, Speak," what surprises David about the inside of Daryl's cabin?
(a) How cold it is.
(b) How expensive the furnishings are.
(c) How much furniture is missing.
(d) How clean it is.

2. In "Safe Harbor," how does David end up in the emergency room, himself?
(a) He has a panic attack.
(b) He has a car accident.
(c) He overdoses.
(d) He is assaulted.

3. In "Safe Harbor," what does the reader learn about David's father?
(a) He is in jail.
(b) He has died.
(c) He has moved to Maine.
(d) He has offered David a job.

4. In "Half-Life," how does David rationalize breaking into his grandmother's house?
(a) She will not have left any money there.
(b) Any money she has is part of his inheritance.
(c) His grandmother would give him the money if she were there.
(d) She owes his mother money for her nursing care.

5. In "Safe Harbor," where has David recently gotten a job?
(a) UPS.
(b) Dysart's Restaurant.
(c) A dollar store.
(d) Tribal maintenance.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Safe Harbor," what is David constantly unsatisfied with throughout his visit to the clinic?

2. In "The Name Means Thunder," what does the hospital keep calling about?

3. In "Half-Life," what slang word do David and Fellis use to refer to the pills they are both taking?

4. In "The Name Means Thunder," what does Paige burn at the end of the story?

5. In "Night of the Living Rez," when the rain finally stops, what do JP, David, and Tyson spend the day doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Earth, Speak," how does a comment from Tabitha seem paradoxical to David?

2. In "Half-Life," how do David's mother and grandmother seem to feel about him?

3. In "Night of the Living Rez," what does David think the woman has in the Gatorade bottle, and how does he later learn what the liquid really is?

4. In "Safe Harbor," what is written on the clinic's whiteboard, and what is David's reaction?

5. In "Safe Harbor," what is the double meaning of the question David asks when he is brought into the emergency room?

6. In "Smokes Last," what story does Frick tell about shooting in his childhood, and how does it reinforce a motif in the way he relates to David?

7. In "The Name Means Thunder," how do the words that David whispers to Bedogi contrast with what David is really thinking and feeling?

8. In "Night of the Living Rez," what is a reasonable inference about whom Paige is referring to when she loudly calls someone "That motherfucking pig," and what evidence backs up this inference (244)?

9. When David is running from the police in "Earth, Speak," what help does he get from an unexpected source, and what evidence is there in the end of the story that this gesture mattered deeply to David?

10. In "Earth, Speak," what is the ostensible reason that David and Fellis go to see Daryl?

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