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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. How much money with Margaret give cops who approached her when she was on the streets?

3. When Sadie and Bird see crabs at the cabin, how does Sadie say you can catch them?

4. How many acres is the Duchess's property?

5. What image was on a blanket Margaret took with her from a home where a man named Mohamad and his wife lived?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Margaret's parents die?

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

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

4. What is the cabin like?

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

6. Where was the first place Margaret went after she left Bird and Ethan and why?

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

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

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

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

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

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 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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