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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 what city one morning did Margaret read that the main street was painted red?

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

3. What favorite dish from Ethan's childhood did his mother teach Margaret to make?

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

5. How old was Domi when her mother died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What choices do Bird, Ethan, and Sadie have?

2. What does Sadie remember about catching crabs?

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

4. What is Margaret's project, and how does it work?

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

6. Where did Margaret find a place for Sadie to stay?

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

8. Where did Margaret meet Ethan and how did they get to know one another?

9. What does Bird notice in the living room of the house where his mom is living?

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

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

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 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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