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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 injury does LeeRoy sustain?
(a) He sprains his arm.
(b) He breaks a leg.
(c) He has a back injury.
(d) He gets a blood nose.

2. Why does Hằng tell LeeRoy not to get on the horse?
(a) She says he will lose money.
(b) She says the gate man was right.
(c) She says they need to get up early for chores.
(d) She says he is not a real cowboy.

3. What does Hằng call the cowboy?
(a) She calls him Jack.
(b) She calls him "sir."
(c) She calls him Ông Mó-gần.
(d) She calls him Mr. Morgan.

4. Why does LeeRoy come back?
(a) He felt guilty about leaving Hằng.
(b) He was curious to know more about Hằng.
(c) He found Hằng pretty.
(d) Mrs. Brown stole his wallet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a ghost rodeo?

2. What does Mrs. Brown give to Hằng to help with nausea?

3. How is Hằng connected to Texas?

4. What does Mrs. Brown show Hằng?

5. What does LeeRoy want to do at the ghost rodeo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why might Hằng think the story she tells about her father’s bones is happy while Chú Quốc is horrified and cries?

4. What does Mrs. Brown’s offer of help and food represent in the story?

5. Why do the cowboys trick LeeRoy?

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

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

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 is the significance of LeeRoy and Hằng arguing about the music The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?

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

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