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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 took Margaret in during the early days of her exile?

2. In Chapter 11 after Margaret comforts Bird after a bad dream, where does he wake?

3. After meeting Ethan at Domi's birthday party, how many blocks did Margaret walk to see him at his apartment?

4. Where did Margaret take a bus when she left Cambridge?

5. Where did Ethan go to college?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Margaret's parents die?

3. Why did Margaret want to see Bird?

4. How did Marie's parents receive Margaret?

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

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

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

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

9. What is the cabin like?

10. What did Margaret learn about Ethan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Margaret's parents had to struggle to survive when they immigrated to the U.S., even though the Crisis was decades away. When the Crisis came, survival became difficult, especially for anyone of Asian descent. Discuss how and why Margaret’s parents and then Margaret had to learn to survive.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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