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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. Which activity does Frenchie describe as both productive and painful?

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

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

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

5. Frenchie remarks that sleeping inside has caused him to dream about which character?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Provide evidence for the conclusion that Frenchie and his brother Mitch are not getting their basic needs met during the time when the novel opens.

6. In what way does Dimaline differentiate between Wab and the rest of the group in the chapter entitled A Plague of Madness?

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

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 ironic about the circumstances of Frenchie's father Jean's disappearance?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose an object from The Marrow Thieves, such as the whistle, the pink boot, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the philosophy by which one of the main characters in the novel lives life.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Dimaline's messages about cultural inheritance within the text The Marrow Thieves.

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