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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days after Margaret left, did Family Services arrive?

2. In an old paper Bird and Sadie find, where had there been riots for six days?

3. Who does a woman remember seeing when she heard Margaret tell her stories?

4. How old was Bird when Margaret's poetry book, Our Missing Hearts, was published?

5. What is the weather like when Bird and Sadie wait for the Duchess to return in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Margaret find a place to live after the Crisis started and college classes were cancelled?

2. Why did Margaret want to see Bird?

3. What jobs did Domi and Margaret get during the Crisis?

4. How did Margaret's parents die?

5. Why and how did Margaret's parents try to blend in in their neighborhood in their little Rust Belt town?

6. As Margaret listened to stories of children taken, what did she learn?

7. What happened when Family Services came to the Gardner's house?

8. How did Marie's parents receive Margaret?

9. What was the catalyst that got PACT passed?

10. What do Sadie and Bird do when they go down to the water at the cabin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A law called PACT (Preserving American Culture and Traditions) has been enacted. What type of society is created by this law and why?

Essay Topic 2

When Margaret goes to see the Johnsons, she realizes how warily Black people and Asians regard one another. She has seen discrimination perpetrated by Asians on Black people and by Black people on Asians. How does Margaret realize that Asians and Black people experience racism and then perpetrate racism toward one another?

Essay Topic 3

When Bird goes to the public library, many of the shelves are empty. What do the empty shelves convey about censorship in Bird’s society?

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