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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. Which characteristic does NOT apply to the character named Miigwan?
(a) He wears his hair in a mohawk.
(b) He is short.
(c) He stands with a bent posture.
(d) He is tall.

2. Which character has a high and beautiful singing voice, according to Frenchie?
(a) Chi-Boy.
(b) Frenchie.
(c) Jean.
(d) Rose.

3. Which member of Frenchie's family once told him about Miigwan's escape from a boarding school?
(a) His father.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) His mother.
(d) His aunt.

4. Which member of Frenchie's family never came back from the council's last-ditch effort to make their concerns known to the government?
(a) His cousin.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His aunt.

5. Frenchie spends a lot of time with which character in the span of time covered in Haunted in the Bush?
(a) RiRi.
(b) Rose.
(c) Chi-Boy.
(d) Wab.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people within Frenchie's new group are related by blood?

2. When everyone else in the group has become more relaxed, which character remains stressed?

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

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

5. What type of location is the place called Four Winds featured in the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason does Dimaline sometimes include slang and profanity within the narrative?

2. What is the symbolism of the whistle featured in the opening chapters of The Marrow Thieves?

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

4. In what ways could The Marrow Thieves be classified as a bildungsroman?

5. Discuss Dimaline's use of the dream motif to create a particular mood in the chapter called Haunted in the Bush.

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

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

8. What is the significance of the chapter title A Plague of Madness?

9. What shared goal is agreed upon by Frenchie and Rose by the end of the chapter entitled Magic Words?

10. Provide evidence from the chapter called The Four Winds to prove that Frenchie's group has rites and traditions.

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