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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. What kind of item do truant officers use to communicate without words?
(a) A whistle.
(b) An airhorn.
(c) A radio.
(d) A kazoo.

2. In what type of vehicle is Frenchie's brother taken away after he is dragged out of the treehouse?
(a) A tank.
(b) A car.
(c) A van.
(d) A bus.

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

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

5. What is the name of the narrator who delivers the narrative of The Marrow Thieves?
(a) Rose.
(b) Chi-Boy.
(c) Jean.
(d) Frenchie.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Frenchie does NOT mention which reason while discussing the group's slow progress through Four Winds?

3. The Great Lakes became too polluted for use around the same time as which U.S. state slipped underwater?

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

5. For how many days did Wab's captors keep her locked up before she was able to get free?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Provide evidence for the conclusion that Frenchie and his brother Mitch are not getting their basic needs met during the time when the novel opens.

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

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

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

8. What kinds of ineffective coping methods does Miigwan discuss in the chapter entitled Story: Part One? Name three.

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

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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