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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 many months before the novel's opening did Frenchie's mother die?
(a) A dozen.
(b) One half.
(c) A few.
(d) Five.

2. How many stories high is the location called Four Winds?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

3. 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 father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His cousin.
(d) His aunt.

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

5. What types of flowers does Frenchie eat when he has no other food source during his journey?
(a) Azaleas.
(b) Dandelions.
(c) Pansies.
(d) Bluebells.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The only other adult in Frenchie's new group besides Miigwan is which character?

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

4. The phrase "a plague of madness" (44) was applied to what condition when the condition first emerged?

5. Miigwan answers the question about good and evil by speaking about a piece of literature by which author?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who joins Miigwan's group soon after Frenchie does and how does Frenchie come to feel about this new member of the group?

2. In what way does Dimaline differentiate between Wab and the rest of the group in the chapter entitled A Plague of Madness?

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

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

5. Describe the central metaphor of the novel The Marrow Thieves.

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

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

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

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

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

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