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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes a panic on the island?
(a) There is a flood.
(b) More pirates are coming.
(c) There is a bad storm moving in.
(d) There is a fire.

2. How does Hằng get LeeRoy to agree to use his truck to move a mesquite trunk?
(a) She agrees to stop trying to talk to David.
(b) She says she will sign her uncle's document.
(c) She agrees to go on a date with LeeRoy.
(d) She agrees to give him one hundred dollars.

3. Why does Cora ask David to go get LeeRoy?
(a) Hằng asks for LeeRoy.
(b) She wants LeeRoy to see how pretty Hằng looks.
(c) She wants LeeRoy's opinion on the dress.
(d) She knows LeeRoy can soothe Hằng.

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

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

6. How does Linh react to Hằng's confession?
(a) He is angry at her for lying to him about where they were going.
(b) He forgives her.
(c) He does not understand Vietnamese.
(d) He says he likes his life here better, anyway.

7. How did LeeRoy get treatment for his injury?
(a) LeeRoy ignored the injury.
(b) LeeRoy called his parents and they arranged a doctor.
(c) David insisted the vet check LeeRoy over.
(d) LeeRoy went to the hospital.

8. Why does Hằng want to remember now, when she tried to keep her memories at bay before?
(a) She feels safe in the canyon with LeeRoy.
(b) She is happy to remember.
(c) There is no point in keeping the memories at bay now that she has confessed to her uncle.
(d) She wants to write her stories down and she needs to remember.

9. What surprises LeeRoy about Hằng's reaction to his offer of a piggy-back ride?
(a) She scowls and decides to walk.
(b) She refuses and punches his arm.
(c) She races him to the truck, instead.
(d) She accepts and even giggles like a girl.

10. What happens to Hằng in the water?
(a) She swallows water and half-drowns.
(b) Coral slashes her skin, she is battered by rocks, and spiky urchins poke her.
(c) She stays in calm waters and hears the pirates far away.
(d) She sees corals and is amazed by their beauty.

11. Why does Hằng get sad after they sing the song on the Ferris wheel?
(a) She realizes she must go back to her uncle's house.
(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 is worried about money.

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

13. What does Hằng realize when En-Di talks to Linh?
(a) Hằng never had a chance to get to know Linh.
(b) En-Di is pretty and that is why other people like to talk to her.
(c) Linh will never talk to Hằng, no matter how hard she tries.
(d) Hằng should have talked to him about horses, because that it what he is interested in.

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

15. Why is Angie's dad so upset?
(a) He is sad that Linh does not want to talk to him.
(b) Without Hằng's testimony, he cannot adopt Linh.
(c) Hằng did not tell him the truth before.
(d) He is listening to a sad song.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does LeeRoy try to give Hằng his cowboy hat?

2. Where is Hằng's home at the end of the book?

3. How does Hằng react when she sees herself in the mirror?

4. What does Hằng write her own song about?

5. Why might Hằng smile at LeeRoy after Angie flirts with him?

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