Vocabulary
What does Chanie call his white teachers?
Fish bellies
Where is Chanie trying to get to?
Home
Where is Chanie running away from?
Cecilia Jeffrey Residential School
Who is the protagonist of Wenjack?
Chanie Wenjack
Who is the narrator of chapter one?
Chanie Wenjack
What is the word for a place where animal traps are set?
Trapline
What does Chanie find when he wakes up?
A mouse skull
Where does the brothers' uncle live?
In a cabin
What is Chanie called by the teachers at school?
Charlie
When Chanie is the narrator, what kind of narrator is that called?
First-person
What is the word that is used to describe Chanie's legs / feet?
Pigeon-toed
What kind of fish does the uncle catch?
Pike
What kind of tree do the boys use to make a bed?
Spruce
Chanie is running away with two friends. What is their relationship to each other?
They are brothers
Is Chanie a reliable or unreliable narrator?
Unreliable
How do you say "hummingbird" in Ojibwe?
Nenookaasi
What is the name of the disease that Chanie is suffering from?
Tuberculosis
The river is 'stained' by something. What is it?
Tannin
The brothers like to chew on something while waiting for Chanie to catch up. What is it?
Willow sticks
What is the first 'form' that the other narrator(s) take?
Crow
Ningiikaj
How many other children had run away the same week as Chanie and his friends?
A dozen (12)
In chapter 3, the owl-narrator describes the residential school dormitory. What is the heat source there?
A hissing radiator
What does the teacher at the residential school smell like?
The colour yellow or maybe brown
What does "omniscient" mean?
All-knowing