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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. What work did the boy who loved to draw cats have to do?

2. What was dead in the morning when a boy who loved to draw cats slept in an abandoned house?

3. Last year, what month did Sadie suggest she and Bird run away and find her parents and his mother?

4. What flowers grow in a small strip of grass in front of Bird's old house?

5. On a card Bird finds with the name "DUCHESS," what address is written down?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In the story about the boy who loved to draw cats, how does drawing cats save the boy?

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

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

5. How did Sadie describe the library, and what does Bird think about her description when he goes to the library?

6. In the first chapter, what things have been happening that are aimed at PACT?

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

8. Why was Sadie removed from her parents and sent to a foster family?

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

10. What happens in Chapter 2 when Bird tries to use the computer in science class?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

An analogy is a comparison of an unfamiliar object or idea to a familiar one in an attempt to explain the unfamiliar or to help readers understand characters, events, or concepts. What are some analogies Ng uses in Our Missing Hearts? How do these analogies help readers comprehend characters, events, or concepts?

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