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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Chú Quốc want for Hằng?
(a) He wants her to raise wild horses in Texas.
(b) He wants her to return to Vietnam.
(c) He wants her to go to school and study medicine.
(d) He wants her to give her grandmother a burial.

3. How does Chú Quốc find Hằng?
(a) Mrs. Brown gives him the address after Chú Quốc sees Hằng's aunt's hat there.
(b) Chú Quốc called the police.
(c) Chú Quốc has hired private investigators to find his niece.
(d) LeeRoy has called him to tell him where Hằng is.

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

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

6. What does LeeRoy want to do at the ghost rodeo?
(a) He wants to get rid of David and Hằng.
(b) He wants to get a job with Bruce Ford.
(c) He wants to buy a horse.
(d) He wants to earn his grandfather's buckle by taking part in saddle bronc.

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

8. What is LeeRoy's real name?
(a) His name is Donald.
(b) His name is Leon.
(c) His name is Leslie.
(d) His name is Bruce.

9. What experience does LeeRoy have riding bronc?
(a) He learned to ride bronc from his grandfather for years.
(b) He took pony rides as a child and read about Bruce Ford.
(c) He learned to ride from Mr. Morgan.
(d) He took many lessons in rodeo techniques.

10. What advice does En-Di give to Hằng?
(a) She tells Hằng to start lots of conversations and rely on the kindness of strangers.
(b) She suggests Hằng tell everyone her name is Moon, she is 12, and her parents are letting her go on an adventure.
(c) She tells Hằng to read on the bus to pass the time.
(d) She tells Hằng to eat lots of ginger to handle motion sickness.

11. What does Hằng draw and write for Mrs. Brown?
(a) She draws pictures of the war and refugee camp.
(b) She draws pictures of exotic fruit.
(c) She draws horses and then writes down a National Geographic article about wild horses.
(d) She draws pictures of her grandmother.

12. How is Hằng connected to Texas?
(a) Her ancestors are from Texas.
(b) She learned about Texas in school.
(c) She and her family travelled to Texas on Vacation.
(d) She and her father and brother used to watch Western movies in Vietnam and practice their English.

13. Why does Hằng lie to her grandmother and mother about what happened to Linh?
(a) The punishment from her family would be severe if they found out the truth.
(b) Hằng does not remember what happened because she is traumatized, so she makes up a story.
(c) When Hằng says Linh is gone, her grandmother assumes he is kidanpped and Hằng cannot bring herself to admit what happened.
(d) Hằng lies to protect her brother.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Hằng fall when she gets out of the truck?

3. What did Hằng's father give Chú Quốc?

4. Where did LeeRoy's grandmother want to live?

5. What does Mr. Morgan use for bedding for his horses?

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