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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. The reader learns that the same year people stopped dreaming, which objects snapped?
(a) Telephone system.
(b) Cable car lines.
(c) Pipelines.
(d) Computer viruses.

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

3. Miigwan tells the group about the wars named after which natural resource?
(a) Coal.
(b) Water.
(c) Silver.
(d) Gravel

4. Who tells the story featured in the chapter entitled Story: Part One?
(a) Miigwan.
(b) Wab.
(c) Minerva.
(d) Frenchie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the legal name of the character who goes by the nickname of Frenchie?

2. How old is Frenchie?

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

4. How old is Chi-Boy?

5. In the chapter entitled A Plague of Madness, Frenchie describes what type of animal visiting him in his dreams?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When the chapter called A Plague of Madness begins, there has not been a Recruiter sighting for how long?

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

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

5. For what reason is Frenchie already familiar with Miigwan's name before they meet in Frenchie's Coming-to Story?

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

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

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

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

10. For what reason does Dimaline include an allusion to Albert Camus in

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