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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 kind of medication does David's mother regularly take?
(a) Antidepressants.
(b) Benzodiazepines.
(c) Antipsychotics.
(d) Narcotics.

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

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

4. In "The Name Means Thunder," what does David attribute his temporary blindness to?
(a) Contaminated water.
(b) Hysteria and trauma.
(c) Staring at the sun.
(d) The sand in his eyes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Night of the Living Rez," what does JP accuse Tyson of being afraid of in the woods?

2. In "Safe Harbor," what medical crisis does David's mother experience?

3. In "Earth, Speak," what is the implied reason that David lost his take-home privileges at the methadone clinic?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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