The Marrow Thieves Quizzes

The Marrow Thieves Quiz 1

1 What does the narrator compare the popping of the Doritos bag to?
Pizza

Hunting

Fireworks

Marrow harvesting
2 What does Mitch do when the Recruiters surround the tree house?
He shoots his rifle at them

He sacrifices himself so that French can escape

He hides

He escapes out the back window to the pine tree
3 Why is RiRi banned from attending Story?
Because Story is only for boys

Because she has to clean the camp

Because she is too young

Because she has misbehaved
4 Why is Miig's group heading North?
Because they hope to meet their family members there

Because Miig's husband is in the North

Because the Northern Nations are said to be doing okay

Because they hope to join the resistance camp
5 What does the Department of Oneirology refer to?
The government agency devoted to controlling wildlife

The university team devoted to the study of climate change

The university team devoted to the study of residential schools

The government agency devoted to extracting Indigenous peoples' ability to dream
6 What does "nishin" mean?
Ugly

Bad

Good

Beautiful
7 How does Minerva respond to being at the Four Winds Resort?
She is upset and yells at Miig

She is terrified and runs away

She is worried and refuses to stay

She is happy and begins to speak more
8 Why does the whole group end up sleeping in French's room at the Four Winds Resort?
Because French tells them a story

Because they aren't used to sleeping alone

Because Miig tells them to stay close

Because Recruiters threaten them
9 Who does the Rogarou haunt, according to Minerva?
Little children

Half-breeds

Indigenous men

Métis elders
10 Why must French listen to the story of the Rogarou secretly?
Because Minerva dislikes him

Because he is being punished

Because Rose told him he wasn't allowed to listen

Because the story is only for women
11 Why did Rose go to live with her granny?
Because her parents are alcoholics

Because the government took both her parents

Because her uncles Will and Jonas died

Because she is too old to go to the bush
12 Who interrupts Rose and French before they can kiss at the Four Winds Resort?
Slopper

Wab

RiRi

Miigwans
13 Where does French find Wab at the Four Winds Resort?
Writing her story on a pad of paper

Kissing Chi-Boy in one of the hotel rooms

Drinking alone in an office

Stealing water from the rest of the group
14 Why does Miig refuse to tell Wab's coming-to story?
Because it is too dark for the young people to hear

Because Wab made him promise not to

Because he doesn't know all the details

Because everyone chooses when and how to tell their own story
15 How does Wab characterize her mother?
As wonderful

As shitty

As sad

As worried
16 What work did Wab do in exchange for food back in Toronto?
She took care of people's kids and elders

She worked security at a warehouse

She ran delivering messages and packages

She wired phone messages to peoples' families
17 Why does the gang violate Wab?
Because her family is causing problems

So that she will join their gang

So that she will stop working

Because her boyfriend is in a rival gang
18 What does French see when he climbs a tree to check where the smoke is coming from?
Recruiters shooting young people

A natural forest fire

Trees falling and a flash of yellow light

Minerva destroying the schools
19 What does Miig tell French about where the smoke is coming from?
The Recruiters are shooting young people

The Department of Oneirology is putting out a forest fire

The Department of Oneirology is starting a war

The Recruiters are building a new school
20 Why does Miig tell French not to share news of the new school with the rest of the group?
Because he is secretly working for the Recruiters

Because they don't need to know and it will only harm their motivation

Because he thinks French will reveal too many secrets

Because they are too young to understand
21 How did Miig escape from the schools?
He bribed a security guard

He ran away while working in the laundry room

He killed a Recruiter

Two nurses rescued him
22 Why did Wab follow Miig's group for weeks before joining them?
Because she thought Miig was a traitor

Because she recognized Chi-Boy from the Toronto gang

Because she wanted to steal their belongings

Because she couldn't trust they wouldn't hurt her
23 Why did a group of townspeople tie up and torture Tree and Zheegwon?
Because they caught them stealing food

To get them to reveal secrets about the schools

To try to extract their dreams

To hand them over to Recruiters for a ransom
24 What is Miig's tattoo of?
A horse

A python

A hawk

A buffalo
25 Why does Frenchie decide not to kill the moose?
Because he doesn't know how to shoot

Because they would have to waste much of the meat

Because he is afraid Rose will be angry at him

Because Miig instructed him not to

textual evidence from the novel (quotations) that show aspects of Frenchie’s leadership. CONTEXT and EXPLANATIOn

Over the course of his journey, Frenchie grows from a scared boy to a leader, ultimately making decisions that affect the group to help them survive. Making these decisions is however quite taxing to Frenchie. Frencie deciding to kill Travis was a...

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Answered by Aslan on 1/17/2023 5:11 AM

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Who is Mitch? Why does he make so much noise in the treehouse?

Mitch is Frenchie's brother. He begins screaming in the treehouse to distract the Recruiter, which allows Frenchie to escape. Mitch dies in order to save his brother's life.

Asked by ethan s #1360715

Answered by jill d #170087 on 3/6/2025 3:44 PM

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What CHAPTER AND PAGE is the following quote from?

The quote can be found on page 118, in the chapter, Rogarou Comes Hunting.

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 3/29/2021 9:02 PM

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The Marrow Thieves

by Cherie Dimaline

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