The Marrow Thieves Flashcards
Who is the author of The Marrow Thieves?
Cherie Diamline
In Marrow Thieves, now that there aren't so many cities, what do all of the city names have in common?
directions (West City, Northeast Metropolis, Southern Township)
In Marrow Thieves, what do Mitch and Frenchie find while scavenging at the beginning of the book?
a bag of Doritos
In Marrow Thieves, what is Frenchie's real name, that only mom called him when he was in trouble?
Francis
In Marrow Thieves, what does the logo on the Recruiters windbreakers say?
Government of Canada: Department of Oneirology
In Marrow Thieves, what direction is Frenchie supposed to head?
north or northeast
In Marrow Thieves, what bodies of water have become industry-plundered and poisonous?
the Great Lakes
In Marrow Thieves, what is the name of the place from where Mom disappeared?
the Friendship Center
In Marrow Thieves, while Frenchie is in the woods, what pains so badly that it makes him consider fixing it with a rock?
his molar, his tooth
In Marrow Thieves, what does Miig keep around his neck
a shoelace holding a pouch [his heart]
In Marrow Thieves, in Miig's stories, why does he say the warriors lost a lot?
they got sick with new germs which caused fevers and pukes
In Marrow Thieves, which member of Miig's group very rarely talks, and only laughs and screams?
Minerva
In Marrow Thieves, what is the purpose of Miig's Story?
to set the memory in perpetuity
In Marrow Thieves, which character was pretty messed up after hearing Story at too young of age?
Slopper
In Marrow Thieves, what is the signal that something is coming?
a low whistle with a fluttering end
In Marrow Thieves, what has happened to California?
it is in the ocean
In Marrow Thieves, when the people started to get sad, what happened to their sleep?
they stopped dreaming
In Marrow Thieves, how often does Miig tell Story?
once a month
In Marrow Thieves, what are the names of the two groups the family splits into and took turns doing?
Homesteaders and Hunters
In Marrow Thieves, what are the names of the twins?
Zheegwon and Tree
In Marrow Thieves, what item do the Hunters share in order to keep track of each other and the day?
wristwatch
In Marrow Thieves, what were they calling the dreamlessness when it first started?
a plague of madness
In Marrow Thieves, while hunting, who does Wab see in the woods?
two Indian men (one is the man who tricked her into taking a decoy message)
In Marrow Thieves, what does Minerva say stops a Rogarou from killing?
if met without fear
In Marrow Thieves, how does the family keep the feeling of togetherness while sleeping at the Four Winds Resort?
they leave their doors open
In Marrow Thieves, before the cities were emptied, people could make good money by betraying their neighbors, doing what?
snitching on Indians
In Marrow Thieves, before the cities emptied out, what was Wab's way of life that helped her get food?
running, being a messenger
In Marrow Thieves, why is Wab's mother incapable of taking care of her?
she's an alcoholic and later a drug addict
In Marrow Thieves, before the story begins, new migration from where was changing geography daily?
coastlines
In Marrow Thieves, for what reason were indigenous people at first requested to participate in medical trials?
to figure out why they could dream and others couldn't
In Marrow Thieves, when indigenous people didn't willingly volunteer for the dream medical trials, who did they look to next?
indigenous people in prison
In Marrow Thieves, what solution was created to keep indigenous people together so they could study their dream abilities?
residential schools
In Marrow Thieves, who was Isaac?
Miigwan's husband
In Marrow Thieves, what does the younger of Miig and Isaac's houseguests show Miig in the middle of the night?
her black monitoring anklet
In Marrow Thieves, what route could Miig and Isaac have taken to escape the house?
through the cellar
In Marrow Thieves, when Frenchie climbs a tree because the family smells fire, he sees something he's never seen before. What is it ?
a construction site building a new school
In Marrow Thieves, when the family cooks squirrels on their new hibachi, Minerva teaches everyone the new word, "abwaad." What does it mean?
cooking on a fire
In Marrow Thieves, what does Chi-Boy find at Four Winds Resort and later give to Wab while she slept as a kind of present?
a white tapper hat
In Marrow Thieves, what does RiRi find and plan to use as a toy, but the rest of the group panics over?
a lunch box with a superhero on it and a fresh sandwich inside