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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 which direction does the group head when the chapter called The Four Winds begins?
(a) Southeast.
(b) North.
(c) Northwest.
(d) West.

2. In Wab's Coming-to Story, Wab describes how people began to carry what objects as protection?
(a) Rifles.
(b) Two-by-fours.
(c) Golf clubs.
(d) Crossbows.

3. The Great Lakes became too polluted for use around the same time as which U.S. state slipped underwater?
(a) Florida.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Wisconsin.
(d) California.

4. When Frenchie asks the cause of death for Minerva's family member, what malady do the twins name?
(a) Dysentery.
(b) Hypothermia.
(c) Flu.
(d) Cough.

5. Frenchie remarks that sleeping inside has caused him to dream about which character?
(a) Mitch.
(b) His father.
(c) Rose.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of the group is always responsible for sounding an alarm in the case of trouble?

2. What type of creature does Frenchie decide not to kill in the chapter called Haunted in the Bush?

3. Which member of the group always leads the others, while Chi-Boy always brings up the rear?

4. The only other adult in Frenchie's new group besides Miigwan is which character?

5. Which character joins the group soon after Frenchie does in the chapter called Story Part One?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the symbolism of the freezer featured in Wab's Coming-to Story?

2. Discuss Frenchie's paradoxical feelings about the act of remembering.

3. What is ironic about the circumstances of Frenchie's father Jean's disappearance?

4. Describe the central metaphor of the novel The Marrow Thieves.

5. How does Frenchie explain Minerva's choice to save tin can lids?

6. Discuss the theme of appearance versus reality and how it appears within the chapter entitled Frenchie's Coming-to Story.

7. With which character does Frenchie begin to spend more time in the chapter called Haunted in the Bush?

8. In the chapter called Story Part 2, Miigwan continues telling a story he began telling on the night of whose arrival?

9. In what way does the epigraph section of the novel prepare the reader for the text's focus on one particular theme?

10. In what way does Dimaline differentiate between Wab and the rest of the group in the chapter entitled A Plague of Madness?

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