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

2. What time does Margaret begin in Chapter 13?

3. After calling himself and Bird in sick when Bird was missing, what day did Ethan go back to work because he ran out of sick days?

4. Who took Margaret in during the early days of her exile?

5. In Chapter 15, how many people does Bird imagine passing Margaret's stories from ear to ear?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the Duchess asked Sadie what she would like other than having her parents back, what did Sadie say?

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

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

4. What jobs did Domi and Margaret get during the Crisis?

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

6. What did Margaret learn about Ethan?

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

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

9. How did Marie's parents receive Margaret?

10. What does Sadie remember about catching crabs?

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

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

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?

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