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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 word does Rose speak the first time Frenchie realizes that she "has language" (34) she has been learning from Minerva?
(a) Anish.
(b) Nishin.
(c) Akimbo.
(d) Kaz.

2. The truant officers who hunt Indigenous people in the novel are referred to with what term?
(a) Hunters.
(b) Spies.
(c) Recruiters.
(d) Followers.

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

4. Which character asks Wab if the familiar man she observed in the woods had been the one to cut her face open?
(a) Minerva.
(b) Tree.
(c) RiRi.
(d) Chi-Boy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Dreams are described as getting "caught in the webs woven in your" (19) what?

3. Which direction did Frenchie and his brother name when they told their mother which way they would be traveling the last time they saw her?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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