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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 is the fireplace made of at the Duchess's cabin?

2. Who does a woman remember seeing when she heard Margaret tell her stories?

3. Where did Ethan go to college?

4. What instrument did Marie Johnson play?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Margaret learn about Ethan?

3. What happened when Family Services came to the Gardner's house?

4. How did Margaret's book become associated with the anti-PACT movement?

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

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

7. How does Margaret lose track of time as she tells the stories of the missing children?

8. What did Margaret take with her when she left, and what did they agree about contacting one another?

9. What was the inspiration for Margaret's poem Our Missing Hearts?

10. How did Margaret's parents die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A line from Margaret's poem is used in an anti-PACT protest. What are the consequences when the meaning of Margaret’s poem is changed and then twisted?

Essay Topic 2

Margaret's last story addresses Bird and communicates truths she wants to share with him. What does she want to share with him? What is revealed about the power of words and stories in Our Missing Hearts?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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