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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hằng call the rap songs LeeRoy plays in his truck?
(a) She calls them songs.
(b) She calls them bad music.
(c) She compares them to Vietnamese songs.
(d) She calls them poems.

2. What does David agree to in order to come to the midnight rodeo?
(a) He agrees to board his horse somewhere else.
(b) He agrees to talk to Hằng every lunch hour.
(c) He agrees to give LeeRoy money.
(d) He agrees to let LeeRoy have his horse.

3. Why is Hằng's appearance unusual?
(a) She wears a big cowboy hat.
(b) She has dyed her hair to fit in and it came out looking strange.
(c) She had shaved her head and eyelashes as part of her disguise as a monk and they are only now growing back.
(d) She insists on wearing dresses, even though she works on a ranch.

4. What were David's first words in Amarillo?
(a) He said "thank you" to Brother Grady.
(b) He spoke in Vietnamese when eating an underripe plum.
(c) He asked Mrs. Brown for help.
(d) He prayed in Vietnamese.

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

6. What injury does LeeRoy sustain?
(a) He breaks a leg.
(b) He sprains his arm.
(c) He gets a blood nose.
(d) He has a back injury.

7. Why does the bus pull over?
(a) It is because Hằng throws up.
(b) It is because the bus has a flat tire.
(c) There is a car accident on the road.
(d) It is because Hằng's uncle stops the bus.

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

9. Where does Hằng fall when she gets out of the truck?
(a) She falls into a ditch full of water.
(b) She falls into a mud puddle.
(c) She falls into a field.
(d) She falls into a ditch full of thistles.

10. What does Hằng call her mother?
(a) She always called her Mama.
(b) She always called her Mẹ.
(c) She always called her Ma.
(d) She called her Ba.

11. What does Hằng give LeeRoy to try to convince him to take her to her brother?
(a) She gives him food.
(b) She gives him a book.
(c) She gives him a rodeo buckle.
(d) She gives him $40.

12. Why are Cora and Mr. Morgan close?
(a) Cora and Mr. Morgan both like riding horses and spend a lot of time talking about that.
(b) Cora's father and Mr. Morgan were best friends and Mr. Morgan now sees Cora as a daughter.
(c) Cora helps Mr. Morgan with his farm and helped him save his farm from drought.
(d) Cora and Mr. Morgan both help raise David.

13. What does Hằng do every morning?
(a) She draws horses.
(b) She learns to ride a horse
(c) She climbs on a ladder to spy on her brother.
(d) She tends her fruit garden.

14. Why does LeeRoy not want a job?
(a) This is his summer to be a cowboy and he has worked for it.
(b) He does not like to work.
(c) He does not have to work because his parents pay his way.
(d) He canont find a job.

15. How does En-Di help Hằng?
(a) She lends Hằng her Mustang.
(b) She tells her dad where Hằng is going so he can keep Hằng safe.
(c) She packs her clothes in a backpack and gives her sixty dollars of savings, then drives her to the bus station.
(d) She convinces LeeRoy to drive Hằng to Amarillo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the man at the gate turn away LeeRoy's five dollars?

2. What is the goal of saddle bronc?

3. What does Hằng call the cowboy?

4. How does Hằng think she can prevent confessing about what happened at the airport?

5. What is LeeRoy's budget?

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