The Marrow Thieves Practice Test

The main idea this question tests is how disease from unfamiliar germs can cause real harm and losses for a group. In Miig’s stories, the warriors lose a lot because they contract new germs that bring fevers and pukes, so illness weakens them and reduces their numbers. The emphasis is on a direct link: exposure to unfamiliar pathogens leads to sickness, which in turn leads to big losses. The other ideas either describe exposure without the concrete outcome (facing new germs) or point to unrelated issues (betrayal or running out of supplies) that don’t explain why the losses happened in these stories.