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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hằng overhear her brother say?
(a) He says he wishes Hằng never left Vietnam.
(b) He says that Hằng is strange because she is a refugee.
(c) He says he wishes he could speak Vietnamese so he could talk to Hằng.
(d) He says Hằng will mess everything up because his mother never officially adopted him.

2. What does Hằng learn when she arrives in America?
(a) That her gradmother wrote her a letter.
(b) That Linh has been found.
(c) That her mother arrived before her.
(d) That her grandmother has died.

3. What happened to Father Grady?
(a) He left the church and got married.
(b) He was killed in a car accident.
(c) He left for Vietnam again.
(d) He moved away from Texas.

4. How does LeeRoy stop Chú Quốc's car?
(a) He stops his truck sideways in front of the car.
(b) He crashes into the back of the car.
(c) He calls the police.
(d) He sideswipes the car.

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

6. What does LeeRoy notice too late?
(a) The cowboys are too drunk to count to eight.
(b) The cowboys want to steal his money.
(c) The cowboys want to kidnap Hằng.
(d) The cowboys have set him up to be hurt.

7. Where did LeeRoy's grandmother want to live?
(a) She wanted to live in New York City.
(b) She wanted to live in Vietnam.
(c) She wanted to live in London
(d) She wanted to live in Texas with her cowboy husband.

8. What is Hằng's first impression of her brother?
(a) He looks exactly like he did six years ago.
(b) He is well-dressed.
(c) He is much older and unfamiliar, wearing clothes that do not fit.
(d) He is very kind and welcoming.

9. What is a ghost rodeo?
(a) It is where cowboys look for jobs and talk about their work.
(b) It is an event where riders come together in a random field in the middle of the night.
(c) It is an illegal gambling operation.
(d) It is an event where horses are sold.

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

11. What does Mrs. Brown give to Hằng to help with nausea?
(a) She gives her ice cubes in a cloth.
(b) She gives Hằng ginger.
(c) She gives her pills.
(d) She gives her ginger ale.

12. What is the goal of saddle bronc?
(a) It is to get the horse calmed down and back into the trailer.
(b) It is to do three laps around the ring.
(c) It is to stay on a bucking horse for eight seconds.
(d) It is to stay on a bucking horse for three seconds.

13. What does Hằng want to do when LeeRoy is turned away by the gate man?
(a) She wants to see what else is at the ghost rodeo.
(b) She wants to argue with the gate man and try to give him more money to let LeeRoy ride.
(c) She wants to go home.
(d) She wants to talk to Linh about horses.

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

15. How does En-Di help Hằng?
(a) She tells her dad where Hằng is going so he can keep Hằng safe.
(b) She lends Hằng her Mustang.
(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 do the hired hands call Hằng?

3. What does David agree to in order to come to the midnight rodeo?

4. What happens to LeeRoy at the bar?

5. What does Hằng call the cowboy?

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