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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. 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?

2. There has not been a sighting of a Recruiter for what length of time by the events depicted in A Plague of Madness?

3. To what location does Frenchie go at the end of the chapter entitled A Plague of Madness?

4. Miigwan tells the group about the wars named after which natural resource?

5. What type of creature does Frenchie decide not to kill in the chapter called Haunted in the Bush?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Trace the characterization arc of Frenchie’s character throughout the novel The Marrow Thieves. Discuss whether Frenchie is a round or flat character and whether Frenchie is a static or dynamic character.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Dimaline's choice to tell the story of The Marrow Thieves using the first person point-of-view of Frenchie, with the exception of each main character's coming-to story. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Dimaline’s intended effects on the reader?

Essay Topic 3

What is the function of Minerva's character within the novel? Discuss the characterization methods used by Dimaline in depicting Minerva and include in your discussion the reasons that Dimaline portrays Minerva in these particular ways.

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