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WorksheetsThe Marrow Thieves Review (1)
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 14mins
Reverence
a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group
close in time; about to occur
actions or thoughts, based on conscious or unconscious bias, that favor one group over others
A seven-year-old girl in the family. This character is generally happy, endearing, and sassy. She begins to crave more independence in the weeks before the main story begins, so she starts sleeping in her own tent and pesters Frenchie to tell her Story.
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Is an eighteen-year-old woman in Frenchie's family. As the oldest girl which is marred only by a huge keloid scar that runs from her forehead to her chest and which covers one of her eyes.
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The group’s Elder. She usually sings or mutters in Cree when she speaks at all; she uses her voice and song to cause a marrow-extracting machine to break.
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Father figure of a ragtag group of Indigenous children. He's a middle-aged Anishnaabe man who speaks the Cree language and is skilled at teaching his adopted family the Story, an account of the events leading up to the post-apocalyptic world.
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What were the people robbed of when they were forced to attend residential schools?
clothing
money
language
inheritance
What was the main resource the governments started to fight about?
land
food
animals
water
Which child really looks up to and wants to spend time with Frenchie?
RiRi
Slopper
Tree
Zheegwon
Who are the twins?
Slopper and RiRi
Tree and Zheegwon
Miig and Minerva
Frenchie and Mitch
Where do they believe dreams are stored within the body?
Their minds
Their bone marrow
Their skin
Their eyes
Where does the novel take place?
United States
Canada
United Kingdom
France
What is the setting of the novel?
Past
Present
Future
Where does the opening scene of the story take place?
A basement
A treehouse
A grocery store
The woods
Who is Mitch?
Frenchie's best friend
A recruiter
Frenchie's brother
Miig's son
Why do the recruiters want to capture Indigenous people?
Indigenous people stole from them.
The recruiters want their land.
Indigenous people hold the secret to global warming.
Indigenous people have bone marrow that gives the ability to dream.
Why wasn't RiRi allowed to listen to Story?
She is too young.
Frenchie wanted to be mean.
She might tell someone.
She came to hear it too late.
An alarm goes off in the camp after Story. What does it mean?
There is a fire
It was a drill
There is an intruder
Someone has been kidnapped
Frenchie descends from which group of people?
Anishnaabe
Metis
Cree
Iroquois
The setting of the novel is:
modern day New York
modern day Ontario
dystopian New York
dystopian Ontario
The protagonist's dad went missing when:
He went hunting
He went to the Council
He and the Council went to see the Governors
He went into the Friendship Center to get supplies
The protagonist's mom went missing when:
She went hunting
She went to Toronto
She went to find her husband
She went to the Friendship Center to get supplies
What is a dystopia?
a bad vibe or feeling
a negative theme
a world set in the future
a world that is undesirable, frightening and difficult to survive in
The protagonist's dad taught him to head:
North
South
East
West
Why was Frenchie envious of Rose?
She found warm clothes hanging from a tree
She knew Story
She knew the language
She got to stay at the homestead
This word most nearly means "strategy"
monotone
formulate
tactic
perishable
This word most nearly means "threatening"
monotone
pungent
hysterical
menacing
