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

2. Frenchie's brother finds a bag containing what type of food?
(a) Chips.
(b) Cereal.
(c) Pretzels.
(d) Popcorn.

3. How tall is the fence that surrounds the location called Four Winds?
(a) 5-6 feet.
(b) 10-12 feet.
(c) 14-16 feet.
(d) 6-8 feet.

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

5. Which character is about to test the fence around Four Winds for electrical current when Frenchie steps in instead?
(a) Minerva.
(b) Miigwan.
(c) Isaac.
(d) Chi-Boy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Wab when the building in which she and her mother rented a room burned down?

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

4. In Wab's Coming-to Story, Wab describes how people began to carry what objects as protection?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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