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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. In Chapter 4, how many books did Ethan have to pull for the FBI?

2. On what floor of a dormitory do Bird and his father live?

3. As Bird rides the bus in Chapter 7, what color SUV does he see pulled over by a police cruiser?

4. When Sadie came, where did Bird start eating lunch at school?

5. What type of folklore is the book Bird is looking for in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Bird study by flashlight in Chapter 1 after his father goes to sleep?

3. What changed for Bird after his mother left?

4. What does the Duchess's place look like?

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

6. What does Bird notice on his way home from school in the second chapter?

7. How does Bird get into the university library and the stacks of the library?

8. How does the public librarian help Bird get to New York?

9. What does the public librarian tell Bird about how she recognized him?

10. Where do Bird and his father live, and what does his father do for a living?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mood is an element that authors use to evoke feelings in readers through the use of descriptive language. Mood is the overall feeling that readers have when reading a story. What is the overall mood of Our Missing Hearts?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view of Our Missing Hearts? How does the way that the third-person narrator follows Bird and then Margaret influence what readers know about events and characters? How does having the narrator follow different characters help readers connect with and understand characters?

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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