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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What punishment does Mr. Morgan devise for Linh, Hằng, and LeeRoy for going to the midnight rodeo?
(a) He has them plant melons.
(b) He has them uproot mesquite trees.
(c) He has them put up fence posts.
(d) He has them muck out the horse stalls.

2. What does Hằng think could happen to Lan?
(a) She thinks Lan will succeed at forgetting and will go to college.
(b) She thinks Lan will work hard all her life.
(c) She will get a shiny life but then the memories will come at her from nowhere and she will not be able to keep them back.
(d) She will not be able to start a new life in Australia because she will not be able to get the papers.

3. Why does Angie tell her dad about her dance teacher?
(a) Angie wants her father to appreciate American dance more, and not just music.
(b) Angie thinks her dad needs to let go and not be so forceful with Hằng and Linh.
(c) Angie wants her dad to support her dancing.
(d) Angie thinks her dad would benefit from physical exercise because he is so stressed.

4. What does Angie's dad think of Hằng's confession?
(a) He thinks she is telling the truth.
(b) He thinks she is telling the truth to hurt the family.
(c) He thinks she is afraid of the pirates and is not telling the truth.
(d) He thinks she is being dishonest because she wants to get closer to Linh and Cora.

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

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

7. Why does LeeRoy rap?
(a) He is scared that Hằng is so still and non-responsive.
(b) He wants to remind Hằng of their time on the road.
(c) He is trying to encourage Hằng to cry if she needs to.
(d) He wants to make Hằng go back to the house.

8. Why does Hằng's uncle not want to hear the truth about what happened to Linh?
(a) He does not want Hằng to get upset by remembering.
(b) He thinks the truth will make him too sad.
(c) It will not help him adopt Linh and that is the only thing he cares about.
(d) It will just make him feel worse about not being able to help the family.

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

10. What does Hằng write her own song about?
(a) She writes about rain and soldiers killed in the war.
(b) She writes about the ranch.
(c) She writes about a yellow butterfly and her brother.
(d) She writes about her journey to America and how people like LeeRoy are kind as she seeks a future for herself.

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

12. What happens in the cave?
(a) A bear comes into the cave.
(b) Pirates come into the cave and find them.
(c) There is a snake in the cave.
(d) Some insects burrow under Hằng's skin and into the girl's skin.

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

14. What does Hằng ask LeeRoy to do?
(a) She asks him to keep talking.
(b) She asks him to put the tarp over them to keep them dry.
(c) She asks him to take them back to Mr. Morgan's house.
(d) She asks him for hot cocoa.

15. How do the cowboys react to Hằng?
(a) They attack her.
(b) They ignore her.
(c) They are scared of her.
(d) They laugh at her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does he tell Hằng about longhorns?

2. What does Hằng confess to Linh?

3. What does Angie's dance teacher teach her?

4. Why does Hằng want to remember now, when she tried to keep her memories at bay before?

5. What does David remember first from Hằng's stories?

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