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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 does Hằng do every morning?
(a) She climbs on a ladder to spy on her brother.
(b) She learns to ride a horse
(c) She draws horses.
(d) She tends her fruit garden.

2. Why does the man at the gate turn away LeeRoy's five dollars?
(a) LeeRoy is from out of town and this rodeo is only for locals.
(b) He wants more money.
(c) LeeRoy does not have his own horse to take part in the rodeo.
(d) He thinks LeeRoy is a fake cowboy and can get hurt.

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

4. What is Hằng's first impression of LeeRoy?
(a) He looks Vietnamese.
(b) He is chubby.
(c) He is the cleanest cowboy she has ever seen.
(d) He is unkind-looking.

5. What does Hằng give LeeRoy to try to convince him to take her to her brother?
(a) She gives him food.
(b) She gives him a book.
(c) She gives him a rodeo buckle.
(d) She gives him $40.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hằng's first impression of her brother?

2. Why does LeeRoy not want a job?

3. What does Hằng want to do when LeeRoy is turned away by the gate man?

4. What does Mr. Morgan call Hằng?

5. What do LeeRoy's parents give him as part of his graduation present?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do the cowboys trick LeeRoy?

3. In what ways do Hằng and LeeRoy struggle with language and identity?

4. What do Hằng’s and LeeRoy’s different reactions to Mexican Hat reveal about their personalities?

5. Why is Hằng both happy and sad around Linh?

6. What is the intergenerational conflict that happens at the ranch when Hằng first meets Linh?

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

8. Why does Mrs. Brown steal LeeRoy’s wallet?

9. 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?

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

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