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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. No one is happy in the chapter entitled Back to the Woods because no one wants to leave which location?
(a) The meadow.
(b) The river.
(c) The lodge.
(d) The mountainside.

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

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

4. For how many weeks is Rose with the group before she settles in?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 3.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many stories high is the location called Four Winds?

2. Wab tells the group that she saw how many men in the woods, one of whom she knew?

3. Which character joins the group soon after Frenchie does in the chapter called Story Part One?

4. Which character asks Wab if the familiar man she observed in the woods had been the one to cut her face open?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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