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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 long after Bird's ninth birthday did Marie Johnson die?

3. Years later where will a woman be who heard Margaret tell her stories with her daughter and remember that time?

4. In an old paper Bird and Sadie find, where had there been riots for six days?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who warned the Gardners that Family Services was investigating them?

2. How did Margaret meet Sadie, and what did she learn?

3. How did Margaret's parents die?

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

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

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

7. Why did Margaret want to see Bird?

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

9. What did Margaret learn about Ethan?

10. What rules does the Duchess have for Bird and Sadie when she leaves them at the cabin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

PACT encourages discrimination against Asians, especially Chinese. Why and how is Bird subjected to racism?

Essay Topic 2

A law called PACT (Preserving American Culture and Traditions) has been enacted. What type of society is created by this law and why?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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