The Marrow Thieves Quizzes

The Marrow Thieves Quiz 1

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

Hunting

Marrow harvesting

Fireworks
2 What does Mitch do when the Recruiters surround the tree house?
He escapes out the back window to the pine tree

He hides

He sacrifices himself so that French can escape

He shoots his rifle at them
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 Miig's husband is in the North

Because they hope to join the resistance camp

Because the Northern Nations are said to be doing okay
5 What does the Department of Oneirology refer to?
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

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

Ugly

Good

Bad
7 How does Minerva respond to being at the Four Winds Resort?
She is happy and begins to speak more

She is terrified and runs away

She is upset and yells at Miig

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 Miig tells them to stay close

Because they aren't used to sleeping alone

Because French tells them a story

Because Recruiters threaten them
9 Who does the Rogarou haunt, according to Minerva?
Little children

Métis elders

Half-breeds

Indigenous men
10 Why must French listen to the story of the Rogarou secretly?
Because Minerva dislikes him

Because Rose told him he wasn't allowed to listen

Because he is being punished

Because the story is only for women
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 parents are alcoholics

Because her uncles Will and Jonas died
12 Who interrupts Rose and French before they can kiss at the Four Winds Resort?
Wab

Miigwans

Slopper

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

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
14 Why does Miig refuse to tell Wab's coming-to story?
Because everyone chooses when and how to tell their own story

Because it is too dark for the young people to hear

Because he doesn't know all the details

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

As worried

As sad

As wonderful
16 What work did Wab do in exchange for food back in Toronto?
She took care of people's kids and elders

She worked security at a warehouse

She wired phone messages to peoples' families

She ran delivering messages and packages
17 Why does the gang violate Wab?
Because her boyfriend is in a rival gang

So that she will join their gang

So that she will stop working

Because her family is causing problems
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

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 starting a war

The Recruiters are shooting young people

The Department of Oneirology is putting out a forest fire

The Recruiters are building a new school
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 he thinks French will reveal too many secrets

Because they are too young to understand
21 How did Miig escape from the schools?
He killed a Recruiter

He ran away while working in the laundry room

He bribed a security guard

Two nurses rescued him
22 Why did Wab follow Miig's group for weeks before joining them?
Because she recognized Chi-Boy from the Toronto gang

Because she thought Miig was a traitor

Because she wanted to steal their belongings

Because she couldn't trust they wouldn't hurt her
23 Why did a group of townspeople tie up and torture Tree and Zheegwon?
To try to extract their dreams

To get them to reveal secrets about the schools

To hand them over to Recruiters for a ransom

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

A python

A buffalo

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 doesn't know how to shoot

Because he is afraid Rose will be angry at him

What CHAPTER AND PAGE is the following quote from?

The quote can be found on page 118, in the chapter, Rogarou Comes Hunting.

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 3/29/2021 9:02 PM

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In her coming to story, Wab talks about how she was a talented _________?

She was a talented runner.

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Answered by Aslan on 2/2/2024 12:28 AM

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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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