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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 "Night of the Living Rez," how old is David?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Seventeen.

2. In "Smokes Last," what item of clothing is Tyson constantly trying, unsuccessfully, to keep clean?
(a) His shoes.
(b) His jacket.
(c) His pants.
(d) His hat.

3. In "Smokes Last," what distinctive item of clothing does Tyson wear?
(a) An orange winter jacket.
(b) A New England Patriots hat.
(c) A camouflage-patterned hunting cap.
(d) A blue and white ski jacket.

4. In "Earth, Speak," what is the implied reason for Fellis's questions about Daryl's iPod?
(a) He has been trying to get himself an iPod for months.
(b) He suspects that Daryl took it from Lily's room.
(c) He wonders where Daryl got money for such an expensive device.
(d) He suspects that his aunt traded it to Daryl for pills.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Name Means Thunder," how does David's mother's memory differ from David's?

2. In "The Name Means Thunder," why is David at school while Paige is having her baby?

3. In "Earth, Speak," what techniques are used when David says that "morning fog hovered above miles of pines like the nests of fall webworms in the crooks of brown branches" (199)?

4. In "The Name Means Thunder," what does Bedogi sleep in?

5. In "Smokes Last," what does David steal from Tyson's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Night of the Living Rez," what are the pugwagees?

2. In "The Name Means Thunder," what is ambiguous about Bedogi's manner of death, and why?

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. 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"?

5. 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?

6. In "Earth, Speak," why is Fellis so angry at Daryl?

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

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

9. In "Half-Life," what series of questions does David ask himself about his life?

10. What aspects of the narrative voice in "The Name Means Thunder" clarify for the reader the time period in which David is telling these stories?

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