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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 "Half-Life," what is David covered in when he flees his grandmother's house?
(a) Red paint.
(b) Bacon grease.
(c) His grandmother's clothes.
(d) His mother's baby blanket.

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

3. In "Night of the Living Rez," why is the road by the football field closed off?
(a) For elder and disabled parking for Community Days.
(b) For the convenience of the film crew.
(c) For repair crews to resurface the road.
(d) For vendor loading and unloading during Community Days.

4. In "Earth, Speak," what does David steal from Daryl's cabin?
(a) An iPod.
(b) An ash basket.
(c) Money.
(d) Pills.

5. In "The Name Means Thunder," who is Marla?
(a) A baby nurse.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) A police officer.
(d) A social worker.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Night of the Living Rez," how old is David?

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

3. In "Smokes Last," what thematic motif does the setting of the clearing in the woods symbolically reinforce?

4. Where are Fellis and David when "Half-Life" opens?

5. In "Smokes Last," what is implied when David tells his mother about the Western Union money and she says "I think I can drive" (152)?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Smokes Last," what is the rhetorical function of the grilled cheese burning?

2. Which details in "Half-Life" demonstrate that David does not fully trust Fellis?

3. In "Smokes Last," how do the events taking place in David's life parallel the events in Frick's stories from his youth, and what is the significance of this parallel?

4. In "Smokes Last," how do David and Tyson end up breaking a window?

5. 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)?

6. In "The Name Means Thunder," how does Paige's window screen end up playing an important role in the plot?

7. At the end of "Night of the Living Rez," how is David's mother's behavior similar to her behavior near the end of "Earth, Speak"?

8. 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?

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

10. In "Safe Harbor," what suspicion does David have about the worker outside the clinic in the beginning of the story that is borne out by the man's remarks near the story's end?

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