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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how many weeks is Rose with the group before she settles in?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

2. Which activity does Frenchie describe as both productive and painful?
(a) Waking.
(b) Reading.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Remembering.

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

4. Dreams are described as getting "caught in the webs woven in your" (19) what?
(a) Bones.
(b) Blood.
(c) Head.
(d) Soul.

5. Which direction did Frenchie and his brother name when they told their mother which way they would be traveling the last time they saw her?
(a) East.
(b) South.
(c) West.
(d) North.

6. Miigwan states in the chapter called A Plague of Madness that Indians and Recruiters are both motivated by what element?
(a) Money.
(b) Posterity.
(c) Survival.
(d) Satisfaction.

7. What word does Rose speak the first time Frenchie realizes that she "has language" (34) she has been learning from Minerva?
(a) Anish.
(b) Kaz.
(c) Nishin.
(d) Akimbo.

8. Miigwan answers the question about good and evil by speaking about a piece of literature by which author?
(a) Anthony Burgess.
(b) George Orwell.
(c) J.D. Salinger.
(d) Albert Camus.

9. Who explains the nature of dreams in the chapter entitled Fire?
(a) Minerva.
(b) Jean.
(c) Chi-Boy.
(d) Miigwan.

10. What is the name of Frenchie's brother with whom he has been living in a treehouse for a few days when Frenchie's Coming-to Story opens?
(a) Mitch.
(b) Mark.
(c) Matthew.
(d) Michael.

11. How many people within Frenchie's new group are related by blood?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 0.

12. 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.

13. The day after speaking a certain word to Frenchie in their native language, Rose tells him that it means what?
(a) Life.
(b) Good.
(c) Water.
(d) Wrong.

14. Which character is NOT featured in the nightmares Frenchie describes in the chapter called Haunted in the Bush?
(a) Mitch.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) Rose.

15. The members of Miigwan's group all develop a nasty cough at the beginning of which season?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Fall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator who delivers the narrative of The Marrow Thieves?

2. Which member of Frenchie's family once told him about Miigwan's escape from a boarding school?

3. The truant officers who hunt Indigenous people in the novel are referred to with what term?

4. When Frenchie joins up with Miigwan and the others in his group, in which direction do they head?

5. Who takes ownership over the preparation of meals within the group to which Frenchie belongs?

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