Three Day Road Quizzes

Three Day Road Quiz 1

1 Where do Xavier and Elijah first encounter trench warfare?
Saint-Eloi

Candy Trench

Cambrai

Courcelette
2 What does "wemistikoshiw" mean?
white people

Fritz

Cree

hunters
3 What happens to Xavier and Elijah as they travel to the military recruiting site?
they see mysterious deer tracks

they are almost killed in a forest fire

they almost drown in the river

they fight each other
4 Which soldier encourages Elijah to use morphine?
Gilberto

Grey Eyes

Fat

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

a priest drags her there

her mother makes her

a soldier forces her to
6 What is the final challenge in the snipers' shooting match?
popping balloons by shooting at them

lighting the tip of a match with a bullet

killing a grouse that is flying overhead

shooting a bully beef tin from 150 yards
7 Why does Elijah speak in a British accent?
to feel respected

because he believes it will protect him

to get the others to laugh

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

fire

Rabbit

lynx
9 How did Elijah's mother die?
alcoholism

forest fire

the wemistikoshiw killed her

coughing sickness
10 What happens to Niska after she watches her father kill the windigos?
she runs away from her family

she starts menustrating

she yells at her father

she gets sick
11 Why did Xavier kill the horses on the ship to England?
to make Elijah angry

the horses' legs were broken

to prove himself to the officers

the horses were dying from thirst
12 How did Xavier get his English name?
it was assigned to him by military officers

Elijah picked it for him

he took his dead father's name

he chose it from a gravestone near the recruitment base
13 What do the French soldiers tell Elijah to do?
desert from the Canadian army

empty the pockets of the men he kills

take the scalps of the men he kills

snipe alone, without a spotter
14 What does the Anishnabe corporal tell Elijah?
he has twice his kills in the field

he will be a war hero when he returns home

he should take the scalps of the men he kills

he will be a great officer one day
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

he overheard German officers talking in their trench

the sniper's movement gave him away

a nearby explosion revealed the sniper
16 Who kills the German soldier that tries to strangle Xavier?
Breech

McCaan

Thompson

Elijah
17 Which of his senses does Xavier start to lose in the war?
taste

smell

sight

hearing
18 Why does the Frenchman stop visiting Niska?
he grows frustrated that she cannot speak English

he falls sick and becomes bedridden

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?
confirm that Elijah is addicted to morphine

stop speaking to Elijah

kill a nest of swallows

light a match by shooting at it
20 What vision does Niska have in the sweat lodge with Xavier?
the lynx spirit touching Xavier's forehead with her paw

Elijah and Xavier killing a marten in a hunting trap

two boys throwing stones in the Great Salt Bay

Elijah's spirit steering a canoe in the Great Salt Bay
21 What does Xavier throw on the ground before his last battle?
his medals

his medicine bundle

his ID

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

Elijah receives a letter saying that Niska had drowned

Breech tells him that Niska has been killed

Joseph Netmaker's letter says Xavier was the last of his family
23 How does Elijah save Xavier from being court-martialed?
he tells the officers that Xavier is suffering from a blow to the head

he pretends to be Xavier during roll call

he threatens to kill Breech

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

Fat

Graves

McCaan
25 Why did Niska decide to visit Xavier in the residential school?
Niska's mother's dying wish is for her to raise Xavier as her son

Joseph Netmaker told her that Xavier needed help

his face appeared to her in a vision

the nuns write her a letter asking her to take Xavier