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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 "Safe Harbor," what are the black boxes that David mentions the worker using in the beginning of the story?
(a) Rodent bait boxes.
(b) Files for medical records.
(c) Video surveillance equipment.
(d) Lock boxes to guard medication.

2. In "Safe Harbor," what is the name of the woman that asks David to get her some cigarettes?
(a) Wendy.
(b) Norma.
(c) Donna.
(d) Meryl.

3. In "Half-Life," what does David frequently mention as a way of implying that his circumstances are getting worse and worse and he feels powerless to save himself?
(a) Tornadoes and blowing away.
(b) Floods and drowning.
(c) Fire and being burned.
(d) Avalanches and being buried.

4. In "Night of the Living Rez," what does David say the first people were made from?
(a) Ash.
(b) Shell.
(c) Stone.
(d) Clay.

5. In "Night of the Living Rez," what has David changed about his appearance while at his father's?
(a) He has painted his nails.
(b) He has an earring.
(c) He has cut his hair.
(d) He has a tattoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of "Smokes Last," what does David's mother leave on his dresser?

2. In "Half-Life," what is the implied reason that David throws up as soon as he gets home to his mother's house?

3. In "The Name Means Thunder," what causes Paige's baby to be sick when he is born?

4. In "Night of the Living Rez," who comes out of the woods, startling the boys when they are waiting for the pugwagee?

5. In "Earth, Speak," what rumor does Beth share about Ralph Nelson?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

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

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

4. 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?

5. In "Earth, Speak," how does David's mother respond when she realizes that it is him in her boiler room?

6. 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?

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

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 beginning of "Smokes Last," what is ironic about David's mother's instructions to him before he leaves to play in the woods with his friends?

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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