The Marrow Thieves Quizzes

The Marrow Thieves Quiz 1

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

Hunting

Pizza

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

He hides

He sacrifices himself so that French can escape

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 is too young

Because she has misbehaved

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

Because they hope to join the resistance camp

Because the Northern Nations are said to be doing okay

Because Miig's husband is in the North
5 What does the Department of Oneirology refer to?
The government agency devoted to extracting Indigenous peoples' ability to dream

The university team devoted to the study of residential schools

The government agency devoted to controlling wildlife

The university team devoted to the study of climate change
6 What does "nishin" mean?
Beautiful

Ugly

Bad

Good
7 How does Minerva respond to being at the Four Winds Resort?
She is worried and refuses to stay

She is terrified and runs away

She is happy and begins to speak more

She is upset and yells at Miig
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?
Métis elders

Indigenous men

Little children

Half-breeds
10 Why must French listen to the story of the Rogarou secretly?
Because Minerva dislikes him

Because the story is only for women

Because he is being punished

Because Rose told him he wasn't allowed to listen
11 Why did Rose go to live with her granny?
Because the government took both her parents

Because she is too old to go to the bush

Because her uncles Will and Jonas died

Because her parents are alcoholics
12 Who interrupts Rose and French before they can kiss at the Four Winds Resort?
Miigwans

Slopper

Wab

RiRi
13 Where does French find Wab at the Four Winds Resort?
Drinking alone in an office

Stealing water from the rest of the group

Kissing Chi-Boy in one of the hotel rooms

Writing her story on a pad of paper
14 Why does Miig refuse to tell Wab's coming-to story?
Because everyone chooses when and how to tell their own 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
15 How does Wab characterize her mother?
As sad

As worried

As shitty

As wonderful
16 What work did Wab do in exchange for food back in Toronto?
She wired phone messages to peoples' families

She took care of people's kids and elders

She worked security at a warehouse

She ran delivering messages and packages
17 Why does the gang violate Wab?
So that she will stop working

Because her family is causing problems

Because her boyfriend is in a rival gang

So that she will join their gang
18 What does French see when he climbs a tree to check where the smoke is coming from?
Trees falling and a flash of yellow light

Recruiters shooting young people

Minerva destroying the schools

A natural forest fire
19 What does Miig tell French about where the smoke is coming from?
The Recruiters are building a new school

The Department of Oneirology is putting out a forest fire

The Recruiters are shooting young people

The Department of Oneirology is starting a war
20 Why does Miig tell French not to share news of the new school with the rest of the group?
Because he thinks French will reveal too many secrets

Because they are too young to understand

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

Because he is secretly working for the Recruiters
21 How did Miig escape from the schools?
Two nurses rescued him

He bribed a security guard

He killed a Recruiter

He ran away while working in the laundry room
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 hand them over to Recruiters for a ransom

To get them to reveal secrets about the schools
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 Miig instructed him not to

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

The Marrow Thieves is a coming-of-age novel that explores the themes of adolescence, adulthood, and more specifically, manhood. French has an outdated idea of manhood, in which he is the protector, provider, and hero. Coming-to stories are part of...

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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.

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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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