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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much experience does LeeRoy have with girls?
(a) He had one serious girlfriend in high school.
(b) He was popular and dated many girls in high school.
(c) LeeRoy does not like girls.
(d) They ask him for help with math and he has kissed one girl.

2. Why does Hằng get sad after they sing the song on the Ferris wheel?
(a) She is worried about money.
(b) She realizes Linh will never leave with her and does not need her.
(c) She realizes she can never give her grandmother a funeral.
(d) She realizes she must go back to her uncle's house.

3. What do Hằng, LeeRoy, and the others do when it starts to rain and hail?
(a) They get helmets to protect their heads.
(b) They get rain barrels to collect the water and try to protect the vines.
(c) They go inside until the rain is over.
(d) They run around in the rain and play.

4. Why does LeeRoy think he has turned into a sap?
(a) Thinking about the history of the Comanche makes him want to cry.
(b) He wants to write poetry.
(c) He feels sentimental towards the canyon.
(d) He likes seeing Hằng more than he cares about food or the rodeo.

5. Why is Cora scared in the stable?
(a) She is scared of horses.
(b) She is scared her son will be taken from her.
(c) She is scared of Hằng because Hằng acts in unexpected ways.
(d) She is scared her son will be hurt if he keeps riding horses.

6. What does David remember first from Hằng's stories?
(a) He remembers his grandmother's face.
(b) He remembers the taste of fruit.
(c) He remembers how to talk in Vietnamese.
(d) He remembers his father's stories.

7. What does Angie's dad think about her plans for dance?
(a) He is happy she is creative.
(b) He is happy she is successful at dance.
(c) He does not think it is a viable career.
(d) He wishes she did Vietnamese dance, instead.

8. What does Hằng think of riding on a horse?
(a) She does not like it because the horse is too rough.
(b) She likes it because it makes her feel free,
(c) She likes it because it makes her feel closer to Linh.
(d) She does not like it because it is too far off the ground.

9. What does Hằng think of LeeRoy's rap?
(a) She changes a few lines for him.
(b) She laughs and says she loves it.
(c) She calls it a bad poem.
(d) She says it is awful.

10. What happens to the girl in the cave?
(a) She has been assaulted by the pirates and her back is burned.
(b) Her face has been burned and her hair has been cut off.
(c) She has been killed.
(d) She has made it to safety and can now help Hằng heal.

11. Why does Linh shout at Hằng to not stand behind the horse?
(a) He wants Hằng to talk to her uncle, so he does not have to.
(b) He does not want Hằng near his favorite horse.
(c) He does not want Hằng to talk to him anymore.
(d) Horses kick if someone is behind them.

12. Who helps LeeRoy, Hằng, and David?
(a) Mr. Morgan arrives and gets them back to the ranch.
(b) A random cowboy takes on the cowboys in a fight.
(c) Jack the hemp man stops Hằng and comes back with helpers.
(d) The gate man calls the police to have the cowboys arrested.

13. How did Colonel Mackenzie defeat the Comanche?
(a) He made them ill by poisoning their water.
(b) He told them to leave the land.
(c) He made them sign a peace treaty to leave the canyon to him.
(d) He destroyed their home and captured then killed many of their horses.

14. What is the history of the canyon?
(a) It used to be the site of a lot of houses.
(b) It used to be an ocean and then Native people lived in the area for twelve thousand years.
(c) It was always barren land.
(d) It used to be a glacier.

15. How does Cora tell them they need to get rid of the mesquite stump?
(a) They have to dig it out by hand.
(b) They have to use LeeRoy's truck.
(c) They have to use chemicals to make the root shrink.
(d) They have to dynamite it out.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to the canyon to find LeeRoy and Hằng?

2. What did LeeRoy study in school in senior year?

3. What happens in the cave?

4. What decision did Lan reach about her experience?

5. What greets Hằng when she swims to the island?

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