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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. Which character has a high and beautiful singing voice, according to Frenchie?
(a) Rose.
(b) Jean.
(c) Chi-Boy.
(d) Frenchie.

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

3. When everyone else in the group has become more relaxed, which character remains stressed?
(a) RiRi.
(b) Chi-Boy.
(c) Miigwan.
(d) Wab.

4. For how many days did Wab's captors keep her locked up before she was able to get free?
(a) 5-6.
(b) 1-2.
(c) 12-14.
(d) 2-3.

5. In the chapter entitled Story: Part Two, Miigwan continues the story he started telling the night when which character arrived?
(a) Frenchie.
(b) Rose.
(c) RiRi.
(d) Isaac.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the legal name of the character who goes by the nickname of Frenchie?

2. Which character is NOT featured in the nightmares Frenchie describes in the chapter called Haunted in the Bush?

3. Who tells the story featured in the chapter entitled Story: Part One?

4. No one is happy in the chapter entitled Back to the Woods because no one wants to leave which location?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the chapter title A Plague of Madness?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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