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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Frenchie asks the cause of death for Minerva's family member, what malady do the twins name?
2. Which character asks Wab if the familiar man she observed in the woods had been the one to cut her face open?
3. Wab tells the group that she saw how many men in the woods, one of whom she knew?
4. When Frenchie joins up with Miigwan and the others in his group, in which direction do they head?
5. What is the name of Frenchie's brother with whom he has been living in a treehouse for a few days when Frenchie's Coming-to Story opens?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what ways could The Marrow Thieves be classified as a bildungsroman?
2. Discuss Dimaline's use of the dream motif to create a particular mood in the chapter called Haunted in the Bush.
3. What is ironic about the circumstances of Frenchie's father Jean's disappearance?
4. How does Frenchie explain Minerva's choice to save tin can lids?
5. For what reason does Dimaline include an allusion to Albert Camus in
6. In the chapter called Story Part 2, Miigwan continues telling a story he began telling on the night of whose arrival?
7. What kinds of ineffective coping methods does Miigwan discuss in the chapter entitled Story: Part One? Name three.
8. Discuss the theme of appearance versus reality and how it appears within the chapter entitled Frenchie's Coming-to Story.
9. What explanation do the twins Tree and Zheegwon give for the death of Minerva's son in the chapter called Back Into the Woods?
10. What is the significance of the chapter title A Plague of Madness?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What messages does Dimaline send about oppression in The Marrow Thieves and what themes are employed in order to send these messages to the reader?
Essay Topic 2
Would Dimaline’s novel The Marrow Thieves be classified as a dystopian novel? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Dimaline’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of The Marrow Thieves.
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