Three Day Road Quizzes

Three Day Road Quiz 1

1 Where do Xavier and Elijah first encounter trench warfare?

Saint-Eloi

Cambrai

Courcelette

Candy Trench
2 What does "wemistikoshiw" mean?

white people

hunters

Cree

Fritz
3 What happens to Xavier and Elijah as they travel to the military recruiting site?

they fight each other

they see mysterious deer tracks

they are almost killed in a forest fire

they almost drown in the river
4 Which soldier encourages Elijah to use morphine?

Grey Eyes

Sean Patrick

Fat

Gilberto
5 Why does Niska go to the residential school?

her mother makes her

she wants to go

a priest drags her there

a soldier forces her to
6 What is the final challenge in the snipers' shooting match?

shooting a bully beef tin from 150 yards

lighting the tip of a match with a bullet

killing a grouse that is flying overhead

popping balloons by shooting at them
7 Why does Elijah speak in a British accent?

to feel respected

to get the others to laugh

because he believes it will protect him

all of these
8 What is the only English word that Xavier knows how to write?

lynx

Rabbit

God

fire
9 How did Elijah's mother die?

the wemistikoshiw killed her

coughing sickness

forest fire

alcoholism
10 What happens to Niska after she watches her father kill the windigos?

she runs away from her family

she gets sick

she starts menustrating

she yells at her father
11 Why did Xavier kill the horses on the ship to England?

the horses were dying from thirst

to prove himself to the officers

to make Elijah angry

the horses' legs were broken
12 How did Xavier get his English name?

he chose it from a gravestone near the recruitment base

he took his dead father's name

it was assigned to him by military officers

Elijah picked it for him
13 What do the French soldiers tell Elijah to do?

desert from the Canadian army

snipe alone, without a spotter

empty the pockets of the men he kills

take the scalps of the men he kills
14 What does the Anishnabe corporal tell Elijah?

he will be a war hero when he returns home

he should take the scalps of the men he kills

he will be a great officer one day

he has twice his kills in the field
15 How did Xavier figure out that the German sniper was hiding in no-man's land?

the sniper's movement gave him away

Sean Patrick was shot from an angle below him

he overheard German officers talking in their trench

a nearby explosion revealed the sniper
16 Who kills the German soldier that tries to strangle Xavier?

Breech

Elijah

Thompson

McCaan
17 Which of his senses does Xavier start to lose in the war?

smell

hearing

sight

taste
18 Why does the Frenchman stop visiting Niska?

she tells him to leave after an old hunter asks her for help

he grows frustrated that she cannot speak English

he falls in love with another woman

he falls sick and becomes bedridden
19 What does Breech ask Xavier to do when he is in under the medic's watch?

light a match by shooting at it

confirm that Elijah is addicted to morphine

kill a nest of swallows

stop speaking to Elijah
20 What vision does Niska have in the sweat lodge with Xavier?

Elijah's spirit steering a canoe in the Great Salt Bay

Elijah and Xavier killing a marten in a hunting trap

two boys throwing stones in the Great Salt Bay

the lynx spirit touching Xavier's forehead with her paw
21 What does Xavier throw on the ground before his last battle?

his medals

his medicine bundle

the Mauser rifle

his ID
22 Why did Xavier think Niska was dead?

Elijah receives a letter saying that Niska had drowned

Breech tells him that Niska has been killed

he sees Niska die in a vision

Joseph Netmaker's letter says Xavier was the last of his family
23 How does Elijah save Xavier from being court-martialed?

he pretends to be Xavier during roll call

he tells the officers that Xavier is suffering from a blow to the head

he threatens to kill Breech

he offers himself up to receive the punishment instead
24 Which soldier reads Niska's letter to Xavier?

Graves

Fat

Sean Patrick

McCaan
25 Why did Niska decide to visit Xavier in the residential school?

Niska's mother's dying wish is for her to raise Xavier as her son

his face appeared to her in a vision

Joseph Netmaker told her that Xavier needed help

the nuns write her a letter asking her to take Xavier