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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. The reader learns in Story: Part Two that when the earth broke, "she went out like a wild" (69) what?
2. No one is happy in the chapter entitled Back to the Woods because no one wants to leave which location?
3. Frenchie does NOT mention which reason while discussing the group's slow progress through Four Winds?
4. Which character asks the group a question about the innate goodness or evil of humankind?
5. The day after speaking a certain word to Frenchie in their native language, Rose tells him that it means what?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way does the epigraph section of the novel prepare the reader for the text's focus on one particular theme?
2. What shared goal is agreed upon by Frenchie and Rose by the end of the chapter entitled Magic Words?
3. How does Frenchie explain Minerva's choice to save tin can lids?
4. When the chapter called A Plague of Madness begins, there has not been a Recruiter sighting for how long?
5. What kinds of ineffective coping methods does Miigwan discuss in the chapter entitled Story: Part One? Name three.
6. What is the symbolism of the freezer featured in Wab's Coming-to Story?
7. With which character does Frenchie begin to spend more time in the chapter called Haunted in the Bush?
8. For what reason does Dimaline sometimes include slang and profanity within the narrative?
9. What is the symbolism of the whistle featured in the opening chapters of The Marrow Thieves?
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
Discuss Dimaline's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within the text of The Marrow Thieves.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Dimaline's messages about cultural inheritance within the text The Marrow Thieves.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Dimaline’s novel The Marrow Thieves. What message is Dimaline sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?
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