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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do we learn about the monks on the fishing boat through Hằng's memories?
(a) The refugees asked the monks to come with them to protect them.
(b) The monks were pirates in disguise.
(c) Her mother and her disguised themsleves as monks.
(d) The monks were from a nearby temple.

2. What is LeeRoy's budget?
(a) He has $332 per week.
(b) He has no budget because his parents are wealthy.
(c) He has to live on $19 a day.
(d) He has to live on $5.50 a day.

3. Why is Hằng nervous about her uncle finding her?
(a) Her uncle wants to punish her.
(b) She is being grounded.
(c) Her uncle wants to take her back with him.
(d) She owes her uncle money.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is LeeRoy's background?

2. Why does Hằng not want her brother to stay with Cora?

3. What does LeeRoy notice too late?

4. What is a ghost rodeo?

5. What does Hằng observe her brother doing with his horse?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Hằng shown to be different from the very start of the novel?

2. Why do the cowboys trick LeeRoy?

3. Why does Chú Quốc not want to hear the truth about what happened to Linh in Vietnam?

4. Why do LeeRoy and Hằng have different attitudes about food?

5. What does Hằng’s reaction to the bus leaving without her reveal about her ability to survive?

6. Why does Hằng sit down and refuse to leave once the police arrive?

7. What does LeeRoy’s reactions to the cowboys reveal about his ability to survive? How does it compare to Hằng?

8. Hằng reflects that LeeRoy’s name means Glass-Whip in Vietnamese. In what ways is LeeRoy like a Glass Whip at this stage of the novel?

9. What does Linh’s (David’s) bond with his horse indicate?

10. How do people react to Hằng, and what does that reveal about difference?

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