The Marrow Thieves Quizzes

The Marrow Thieves Quiz 1

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

Hunting

Pizza

Marrow harvesting
2 What does Mitch do when the Recruiters surround the tree house?
He hides

He shoots his rifle at them

He escapes out the back window to the pine tree

He sacrifices himself so that French can escape
3 Why is RiRi banned from attending Story?
Because she has to clean the camp

Because she is too young

Because she has misbehaved

Because Story is only for boys
4 Why is Miig's group heading North?
Because the Northern Nations are said to be doing okay

Because they hope to join the resistance camp

Because they hope to meet their family members there

Because Miig's husband is in the North
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?
Bad

Beautiful

Ugly

Good
7 How does Minerva respond to being at the Four Winds Resort?
She is terrified and runs away

She is happy and begins to speak more

She is worried and refuses to stay

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 French tells them a story

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

Métis elders

Indigenous men

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

Because he is being punished

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 her parents are alcoholics

Because her uncles Will and Jonas died

Because she is too old to go to the bush

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

Miigwans

RiRi

Wab
13 Where does French find Wab at the Four Winds Resort?
Stealing water from the rest of the group

Drinking alone in an office

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 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 wonderful

As worried

As shitty

As sad
16 What work did Wab do in exchange for food back in Toronto?
She ran delivering messages and packages

She worked security at a warehouse

She wired phone messages to peoples' families

She took care of people's kids and elders
17 Why does the gang violate Wab?
Because her family is causing problems

So that she will join their gang

So that she will stop working

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?
Recruiters shooting young people

Trees falling and a flash of yellow light

A natural forest fire

Minerva destroying the schools
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 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 they don't need to know and it will only harm their motivation

Because they are too young to understand

Because he is secretly working for the Recruiters

Because he thinks French will reveal too many secrets
21 How did Miig escape from the schools?
He bribed a security guard

He killed a Recruiter

He ran away while working in the laundry room

Two nurses rescued him
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 wanted to steal their belongings

Because she recognized Chi-Boy from the Toronto gang

Because she thought Miig was a traitor
23 Why did a group of townspeople tie up and torture Tree and Zheegwon?
To get them to reveal secrets about the schools

To try to extract their dreams

To hand them over to Recruiters for a ransom

Because they caught them stealing food
24 What is Miig's tattoo of?
A buffalo

A python

A hawk

A horse
25 Why does Frenchie decide not to kill the moose?
Because Miig instructed him not to

Because they would have to waste much of the meat

Because he is afraid Rose will be angry at him

Because he doesn't know how to shoot