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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Hằng approach in the rest stop?
(a) She approaches a laughing couple.
(b) She approaches older couple who are plainly dressed and speaking quietly.
(c) She approaches a father scolding his boy.
(d) She approaches LeeRoy.

2. Why does Hằng eat ginger on the bus?
(a) She wants to be healthy.
(b) She wants to soothe her nausea.
(c) She's bored.
(d) She wants to remember her past.

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

4. What does Hằng remember looking in the bar?
(a) She remembers Mrs. Brown and her kindness.
(b) She remembers her bus ride and being sick on the bus.
(c) She remembers her uncle.
(d) She remembers a monk being slashed with a machete on the boat.

5. What do LeeRoy's parents give him as part of his graduation present?
(a) They give him truck, clothes, a cowboy hat, and chaps.
(b) They give him lessons in how to be a cowboy.
(c) They give him a new car and a horse.
(d) The give him horseback riding lessons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hằng lie to her grandmother and mother about what happened to Linh?

2. Why does LeeRoy not want a job?

3. How did Bà help Hằng and her mother when they were going to go on the boat?

4. What happened to Father Grady?

5. Why did Hằng's uncle not sponsor the family to immigrate to America?

(see the answer key)

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