The Marrow Thieves Quizzes

The Marrow Thieves Quiz 1

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

Marrow harvesting

Pizza

Hunting
2 What does Mitch do when the Recruiters surround the tree house?
He sacrifices himself so that French can escape

He hides

He shoots his rifle at them

He escapes out the back window to the pine tree
3 Why is RiRi banned from attending Story?
Because she has misbehaved

Because she is too young

Because Story is only for boys

Because she has to clean the camp
4 Why is Miig's group heading North?
Because they hope to join the resistance camp

Because Miig's husband is in the North

Because the Northern Nations are said to be doing okay

Because they hope to meet their family members there
5 What does the Department of Oneirology refer to?
The university team devoted to the study of residential schools

The government agency devoted to controlling wildlife

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

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

Beautiful

Ugly

Bad
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 Recruiters threaten them

Because they aren't used to sleeping alone

Because French tells them a story

Because Miig tells them to stay close
9 Who does the Rogarou haunt, according to Minerva?
Indigenous men

Little children

Half-breeds

Métis elders
10 Why must French listen to the story of the Rogarou secretly?
Because he is being punished

Because Minerva dislikes him

Because the story is only for women

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 her uncles Will and Jonas died

Because she is too old to go to the bush

Because her parents are alcoholics
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?
Kissing Chi-Boy in one of the hotel rooms

Stealing water from the rest of the group

Writing her story on a pad of paper

Drinking alone in an office
14 Why does Miig refuse to tell Wab's coming-to story?
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

Because Wab made him promise not to
15 How does Wab characterize her mother?
As shitty

As wonderful

As worried

As sad
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?
Because her boyfriend is in a rival gang

Because her family is causing problems

So that she will join their gang

So that she will stop working
18 What does French see when he climbs a tree to check where the smoke is coming from?
Minerva destroying the schools

Trees falling and a flash of yellow light

A natural forest fire

Recruiters shooting young people
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 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 don't need to know and it will only harm their motivation

Because he is secretly working for the Recruiters

Because they are too young to understand

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 killed a Recruiter

Two nurses rescued him

He bribed a security guard
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 couldn't trust they wouldn't hurt her

Because she wanted to steal their belongings
23 Why did a group of townspeople tie up and torture Tree and Zheegwon?
To hand them over to Recruiters for a ransom

To get them to reveal secrets about the schools

To try to extract their dreams

Because they caught them stealing food
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 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

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