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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," what has Frick been expressing paranoid thoughts about?
(a) Jesuits.
(b) Bad spirits.
(c) Zombies.
(d) Cameras.

2. In "Half-Life," when David is waiting for Meekew to get home, where is Meekew?
(a) In jail.
(b) At his college.
(c) In the hospital.
(d) At David's house.

3. In "Safe Harbor," what medical crisis does David's mother experience?
(a) A stroke.
(b) A seizure.
(c) An asthma attack.
(d) A heart attack.

4. In "Smokes Last," what are the sources of most of the insults characters use against one another?
(a) Strength and race.
(b) Intelligence and strength.
(c) Gender and intelligence.
(d) Race and gender.

5. In "Night of the Living Rez," how does David feel the world changes each time he comes home from a visit to his father?
(a) It is colder.
(b) It is wetter.
(c) It is darker.
(d) It is grayer.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Earth, Speak," where is the first place David goes after he leaves Ralph's place?

2. In "Half-Life," what is the name of the assisted living facility that Frances is living in?

3. In "Half-Life," which earlier story does David allude to when he is telling Fellis a story from his childhood?

4. 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)?

5. In "Safe Harbor," what has David come to the clinic to bring his mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "The Name Means Thunder," how does David's mother's behavior change once Bedogi is in the house?

2. In "Safe Harbor," what does David's reaction to his mother's medical crisis reveal about their relationship?

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

4. 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?

5. In "Night of the Living Rez," what is David's rhetorical purpose in describing the details of how his mother is driving as she questions him about his father?

6. In "Half-Life," how does David's preoccupation with his grandmother's words as he walks home from the swamp foreshadow the fact that she has died?

7. 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)?

8. 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?

9. In "Safe Harbor," when David is discussing his and his mother's trauma, what cryptic comment hints to the reader that he has yet to reveal some major source of trauma?

10. 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?

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