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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What covers the windows in the living room of the house where Margaret is living?
(a) Wooden shutters.
(b) Black plastic.
(c) Plywood.
(d) Blackout curtains.

2. After finishing Our Missing Hearts, on what social media platform did Ng find a group using the hastag #ourmissing hearts?
(a) Twitter.
(b) Facebook.
(c) Instagram.
(d) WhatsApp.

3. Who took Margaret in during the early days of her exile?
(a) Ministers.
(b) Domi.
(c) Nurses.
(d) Librarians.

4. What does Margaret wear when she goes out in the night in Chapter 9?
(a) Baggy sweatshirt and straw hat.
(b) Raggedy hoodie.
(c) Mended sweatshirt and a knit hat.
(d) Old wool coat.

5. What does Margaret have for her and Bird to eat for dessert in Chapter 9?
(a) Canned fruit cocktail.
(b) Canned mandarin oranges.
(c) Canned peaches.
(d) Canned pineapple.

6. In Chapter 15, how long did it take the Duchess to drive to Cambridge?
(a) About 7 hours.
(b) 3 hours.
(c) Nearly 5 hours.
(d) 6 hours.

7. What is the fireplace made of at the Duchess's cabin?
(a) Brick.
(b) River stones.
(c) Brick with wood.
(d) Steel.

8. When did Vaclav Havel write an essay that changed Ng's thinking about the impact a single individual could have in dismantling a long-established system?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1969.

9. After how many copies of Margaret's book sell, is her publisher told to cease publication and destroy any copies?
(a) About 60,000.
(b) 75,000.
(c) 125,000.
(d) Nearly 50,000.

10. What was the name of Bird's teacher who warned the Garners that she had been summoned to speak with Family Services?
(a) Ms. Aguilar.
(b) Ms. Hernandez.
(c) Ms. Cuevas.
(d) Ms. Dominguez.

11. How old was Margaret when she and Ethan bought a house in Cambridge and he went to work at Harvard?
(a) 25.
(b) 26.
(c) 24.
(d) 27.

12. After meeting Ethan at Domi's birthday party, how many blocks did Margaret walk to see him at his apartment?
(a) 110.
(b) 120.
(c) 54.
(d) 79.

13. When Margaret went to New York after finishing high school, what color streak did she put in her hair?
(a) Purple.
(b) Pink.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

14. How long after Bird's ninth birthday did Marie Johnson die?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) 1 1/2 weeks.
(c) 2 1/2 weeks.
(d) 2 weeks.

15. Who does a woman remember seeing when she heard Margaret tell her stories?
(a) A man wearing an old button-down shirt and stained khakis.
(b) A man wearing ill-fitting fatigues.
(c) A man wearing dirty jeans and a torn T-shirt.
(d) A man wearing coveralls.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is a paper Bird finds at the cabin when he and Sadie are trying to building a fire?

2. What year was Margaret in college when things began to change: shops shuttered and people lost their jobs?

3. Years later where will a woman be who heard Margaret tell her stories with her daughter and remember that time?

4. What college was Marie Johnson attending?

5. Where did Domi's father have a cabin?

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