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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Frenchie's father said that when the family began their journey, they would travel in which direction?
(a) North.
(b) West.
(c) South.
(d) East.

2. In what type of container did Wab's captors keep her locked as she was tortured and raped for a series of days?
(a) A freezer.
(b) A closet.
(c) A dumpster.
(d) A shipping container.

3. What word does Rose speak the first time Frenchie realizes that she "has language" (34) she has been learning from Minerva?
(a) Kaz.
(b) Anish.
(c) Nishin.
(d) Akimbo.

4. Which member of Frenchie's family never came back from the council's last-ditch effort to make their concerns known to the government?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His cousin.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

5. The truant officers who hunt Indigenous people in the novel are referred to with what term?
(a) Spies.
(b) Followers.
(c) Recruiters.
(d) Hunters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator who delivers the narrative of The Marrow Thieves?

2. Miigwan answers the question about good and evil by speaking about a piece of literature by which author?

3. After Frenchie finds himself alone, he decides to set off in which direction?

4. Where is Frenchie when he repeats Rose's native word over and over to himself in the chapter called Magic Words?

5. The logos on the truant officers' uniforms are marked Government of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. With which character does Frenchie begin to spend more time in the chapter called Haunted in the Bush?

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

10. What is ironic about the circumstances of Frenchie's father Jean's disappearance?

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