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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. How many people within Frenchie's new group are related by blood?

2. Frenchie does NOT mention which reason while discussing the group's slow progress through Four Winds?

3. How many people in total are part of the group once Frenchie joins it in the chapter called The Fire?

4. The day after speaking a certain word to Frenchie in their native language, Rose tells him that it means what?

5. What word does Rose speak the first time Frenchie realizes that she "has language" (34) she has been learning from Minerva?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What shared goal is agreed upon by Frenchie and Rose by the end of the chapter entitled Magic Words?

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

5. What is the symbolism of the freezer featured in Wab's Coming-to Story?

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

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

8. What explanation do the twins Tree and Zheegwon give for the death of Minerva's son in the chapter called Back Into the Woods?

9. What is the symbolism of the whistle featured in the opening chapters of The Marrow Thieves?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what way does Dimaline utilize irony within the text? Discuss at least three uses of irony within The Marrow Thieves and explore each instance's connection to larger themes contained within the piece.

Essay Topic 2

How is the theme of injustice portrayed within The Marrow Thieves? Examine Dimaline's treatment of and messages regarding injustice throughout the work.

Essay Topic 3

Read a lengthy interview with Dimaline. Write an essay explaining the connection between several of Dimaline’s answers and a major theme presented within the text of The Marrow Thieves.

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