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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Bà help Hằng and her mother when they were going to go on the boat?
(a) She bought them supplies, including pills for disease.
(b) She wrote down all her wise sayings so they would not forget.
(c) She sewed them diguises and packed food and water.
(d) She packed up her son's bones so they could travel to America.

2. What does Hằng do in the rest stop when she panics?
(a) She remembers her grandmother's advice to take the next step and to ask someone likely for help.
(b) She has a panic attack and throws up.
(c) She calls the police for help.
(d) She stays in the rest stop and waits for her uncle.

3. What is LeeRoy's background?
(a) He is from Dallas and comes from oil money.
(b) He is from Austin and has two professors as parents.
(c) He is poor and from Houston.
(d) He is from Northern Texas and his grandfather was the first Black landowner in the state.

4. What is Hằng's impression of Texas from the bus?
(a) It is vast and empty, with big skies and lots of billboards.
(b) It is too full of people.
(c) It is boring.
(d) It is too hot.

5. What happens to David's horse?
(a) She breaks a leg.
(b) She trips and falls over.
(c) She gets overheated and develops a fever.
(d) Her face is bit by a rattlesnake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What injury does LeeRoy sustain?

2. What does Linh do when he sees Hằng at the door?

3. Who does Hằng approach in the rest stop?

4. Why is Hằng impressed to see LeeRoy eating the orange peel?

5. What does Hằng give LeeRoy to try to convince him to take her to her brother?

(see the answer key)

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