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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. Where does Bird's father work at the university?

2. What are the only books Bird and his father have in their apartment?

3. Which of the public librarian's relatives was at Carlisle?

4. What is the code for the door where Bird finds his mother?

5. What time does Bird reach the Duchess's address?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bird get to his mother?

2. Last May, why did Sadie want to run away, and what was Bird's response?

3. What happens when Bird and his father get pizza in Chapter 4?

4. What game does Bird remember playing with his mother before he went to school?

5. What does Ethan tell Bird could have been the consequences of Bird going to the library?

6. Who is at the library when Bird returns in Chapter 6 and why?

7. What did Bird learn about the phrase, "Where Are Our Missing Hearts" (20) from Sadie?

8. What did Ethan's father to do to satisfy the FBI's request in Chapter 4, and how long did it take?

9. How does the librarian help Bird in Chapter 3?

10. How did the neighbors act after Bird's mother left?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Margaret has to leave home after her poem becomes a slogan. In what way does Margaret have to go into exile? How does she find purpose in her exile?

Essay Topic 2

Before Bird's mother's poem became a slogan, neighbors would often wave and say hello. Many of them would bring baked goods or borrow things. That all changed after Margaret her poem became a slogan and she left. How and why do the neighbors change?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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