The Marrow Thieves Quizzes

The Marrow Thieves Quiz 1

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

Hunting

Marrow harvesting

Fireworks
2 What does Mitch do when the Recruiters surround the tree house?
He escapes out the back window to the pine tree

He sacrifices himself so that French can escape

He hides

He shoots his rifle at them
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 the Northern Nations are said to be doing okay

Because they hope to meet their family members there

Because Miig's husband is in the North

Because they hope to join the resistance camp
5 What does the Department of Oneirology refer to?
The university team devoted to the study of residential schools

The university team devoted to the study of climate change

The government agency devoted to extracting Indigenous peoples' ability to dream

The government agency devoted to controlling wildlife
6 What does "nishin" mean?
Good

Ugly

Bad

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 happy and begins to speak more

She is worried and refuses to stay
8 Why does the whole group end up sleeping in French's room at the Four Winds Resort?
Because they aren't used to sleeping alone

Because Recruiters threaten them

Because Miig tells them to stay close

Because French tells them a story
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 he is being punished

Because Rose told him he wasn't allowed to listen

Because the story is only for women

Because Minerva dislikes him
11 Why did Rose go to live with her granny?
Because her parents are alcoholics

Because she is too old to go to the bush

Because her uncles Will and Jonas died

Because the government took both her parents
12 Who interrupts Rose and French before they can kiss at the Four Winds Resort?
Slopper

RiRi

Miigwans

Wab
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

Stealing water from the rest of the group

Drinking alone in an office
14 Why does Miig refuse to tell Wab's coming-to story?
Because Wab made him promise not to

Because it is too dark for the young people to hear

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 worried

As sad

As wonderful

As shitty
16 What work did Wab do in exchange for food back in Toronto?
She worked security at a warehouse

She wired phone messages to peoples' families

She took care of people's kids and elders

She ran delivering messages and packages
17 Why does the gang violate Wab?
Because her family is causing problems

So that she will stop working

So that she will join their gang

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?
Minerva destroying the schools

A natural forest fire

Recruiters shooting young people

Trees falling and a flash of yellow light
19 What does Miig tell French about where the smoke is coming from?
The Department of Oneirology is putting out a forest fire

The Recruiters are building a new school

The Department of Oneirology is starting a war

The Recruiters are shooting young people
20 Why does Miig tell French not to share news of the new school with the rest of the group?
Because they are too young to understand

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
21 How did Miig escape from the schools?
He ran away while working in the laundry room

He bribed a security guard

Two nurses rescued him

He killed a Recruiter
22 Why did Wab follow Miig's group for weeks before joining them?
Because she couldn't trust they wouldn't hurt her

Because she thought Miig was a traitor

Because she recognized Chi-Boy from the Toronto gang

Because she wanted to steal their belongings
23 Why did a group of townspeople tie up and torture Tree and Zheegwon?
Because they caught them stealing food

To try to extract their dreams

To get them to reveal secrets about the schools

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

A buffalo

A python

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

Because he is afraid Rose will be angry at him

Because Miig instructed him not to

Because they would have to waste much of the meat

5. Why does everyone in the group show fear and panic as Miig prepares to test if the surrounding fence is still electrified?

Everyone is afraid that Miig will be electrocuted and killed.... they panic because they need him.

Asked by Jack wanter #1183164

Answered by jill d #170087 on 10/18/2021 10:30 PM

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How is foreshadowing used in The Marrow Thieves and examples from the text to support

I saw both of the Recruiters now: high-waisted navy shorts, gym socks with red stripes pulled up to their knees above low, mesh-sided sneakers, the kind that make you look fast and professional. Their polo shirts were partially covered with...

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 1/21/2024 9:46 PM

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Why does Frenchie tell RiRi some of the stories?

Chapter please?

Asked by ytrgeg r #1149727

Answered by jill d #170087 on 5/14/2021 2:50 PM

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The Marrow Thieves

by Cherie Dimaline

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