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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. Who took Margaret in during the early days of her exile?
3. What favorite dish from Ethan's childhood did his mother teach Margaret to make?
4. What image was on the front of Margaret's poetry book, Our Missing Hearts?
5. What does Margaret have for her and Bird to eat for dessert in Chapter 9?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do Sadie and Bird do when they go down to the water at the cabin?
2. What does Bird notice in the living room of the house where his mom is living?
3. How did Margaret's parents die?
4. What does Sadie remember about catching crabs?
5. What is Margaret's project, and how does it work?
6. How does Margaret lose track of time as she tells the stories of the missing children?
7. Why did Margaret want to see Bird?
8. What happened when Family Services came to the Gardner's house?
9. How did Marie's parents receive Margaret?
10. What was the inspiration for Margaret's poem Our Missing Hearts?
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
Bird's name on his birth certificate is Noah after his father's father. However, he calls himself Bird. What do the names Bird and Noah relate about identity and who Bird is?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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