Three Day Road Quizzes

Three Day Road Quiz 1

1 Where do Xavier and Elijah first encounter trench warfare?
Courcelette

Cambrai

Candy Trench

Saint-Eloi
2 What does "wemistikoshiw" mean?
white people

Cree

hunters

Fritz
3 What happens to Xavier and Elijah as they travel to the military recruiting site?
they are almost killed in a forest fire

they almost drown in the river

they fight each other

they see mysterious deer tracks
4 Which soldier encourages Elijah to use morphine?
Gilberto

Sean Patrick

Grey Eyes

Fat
5 Why does Niska go to the residential school?
she wants to go

a priest drags her there

a soldier forces her to

her mother makes her
6 What is the final challenge in the snipers' shooting match?
shooting a bully beef tin from 150 yards

killing a grouse that is flying overhead

lighting the tip of a match with a bullet

popping balloons by shooting at them
7 Why does Elijah speak in a British accent?
to get the others to laugh

because he believes it will protect him

to feel respected

all of these
8 What is the only English word that Xavier knows how to write?
lynx

Rabbit

fire

God
9 How did Elijah's mother die?
alcoholism

coughing sickness

the wemistikoshiw killed her

forest fire
10 What happens to Niska after she watches her father kill the windigos?
she gets sick

she starts menustrating

she runs away from her family

she yells at her father
11 Why did Xavier kill the horses on the ship to England?
the horses' legs were broken

to prove himself to the officers

the horses were dying from thirst

to make Elijah angry
12 How did Xavier get his English name?
it was assigned to him by military officers

Elijah picked it for him

he chose it from a gravestone near the recruitment base

he took his dead father's name
13 What do the French soldiers tell Elijah to do?
take the scalps of the men he kills

desert from the Canadian army

snipe alone, without a spotter

empty the pockets of the men he kills
14 What does the Anishnabe corporal tell Elijah?
he will be a war hero when he returns home

he has twice his kills in the field

he will be a great officer one day

he should take the scalps of the men he kills
15 How did Xavier figure out that the German sniper was hiding in no-man's land?
Sean Patrick was shot from an angle below him

a nearby explosion revealed the sniper

he overheard German officers talking in their trench

the sniper's movement gave him away
16 Who kills the German soldier that tries to strangle Xavier?
Breech

Thompson

Elijah

McCaan
17 Which of his senses does Xavier start to lose in the war?
hearing

taste

sight

smell
18 Why does the Frenchman stop visiting Niska?
he falls sick and becomes bedridden

he grows frustrated that she cannot speak English

she tells him to leave after an old hunter asks her for help

he falls in love with another woman
19 What does Breech ask Xavier to do when he is in under the medic's watch?
light a match by shooting at it

confirm that Elijah is addicted to morphine

kill a nest of swallows

stop speaking to Elijah
20 What vision does Niska have in the sweat lodge with Xavier?
Elijah and Xavier killing a marten in a hunting trap

Elijah's spirit steering a canoe in the Great Salt Bay

two boys throwing stones in the Great Salt Bay

the lynx spirit touching Xavier's forehead with her paw
21 What does Xavier throw on the ground before his last battle?
his medals

his ID

his medicine bundle

the Mauser rifle
22 Why did Xavier think Niska was dead?
he sees Niska die in a vision

Joseph Netmaker's letter says Xavier was the last of his family

Elijah receives a letter saying that Niska had drowned

Breech tells him that Niska has been killed
23 How does Elijah save Xavier from being court-martialed?
he threatens to kill Breech

he tells the officers that Xavier is suffering from a blow to the head

he pretends to be Xavier during roll call

he offers himself up to receive the punishment instead
24 Which soldier reads Niska's letter to Xavier?
Graves

Sean Patrick

Fat

McCaan
25 Why did Niska decide to visit Xavier in the residential school?
Joseph Netmaker told her that Xavier needed help

the nuns write her a letter asking her to take Xavier

Niska's mother's dying wish is for her to raise Xavier as her son

his face appeared to her in a vision