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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. How does Rose respond after Frenchie tests the fence for electrical current himself?
(a) She presses her thumb into his palm.
(b) She shoves him.
(c) She smiles at him.
(d) She hugs him.

2. 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) Satisfaction.
(d) Survival.

3. How old was Wab when the building in which she and her mother rented a room burned down?
(a) 14.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 16.

4. What is the legal name of the character who goes by the nickname of Frenchie?
(a) Falstaff.
(b) French.
(c) Francis.
(d) Farnsworth.

5. How old is Chi-Boy?
(a) 14.
(b) 17.
(c) 21.
(d) 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. The reader learns that the same year people stopped dreaming, which objects snapped?

2. Who explains the nature of dreams in the chapter entitled Fire?

3. The reader learns in Story: Part Two that when the earth broke, "she went out like a wild" (69) what?

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

5. What types of flowers does Frenchie eat when he has no other food source during his journey?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What explanation do the twins Tree and Zheegwon give for the death of Minerva's son in the chapter called Back Into the Woods?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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