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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does En-Di suggest to her father?

2. Why is Hằng practicing her English?

3. What does everyone see after LeeRoy helps Linh?

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

5. How did Mildred help Mr. Morgan save the farm?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do songs convey emotions and experiences words alone cannot express?

2. What is the significance of the Ferris Wheel?

3. Why do we get a bit of LeeRoy’s perspective and then Hằng’s perspective as she remembers?

4. Why does Hằng blame herself for her mother’s death?

5. What does this part of the novel uncover about physical and mental scars?

6. What punishment does Mr. Morgan impose?

7. In what ways has LeeRoy changed?

8. What does LeeRoy realize as he sits beside Hằng?

9. Why does Hằng cry out when she falls when she does not shout when everything else happens to her?

10. Why does Hằng tell her uncle the story of her father’s bones?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do LeeRoy and Hằng discover about themselves during the novel? How do they grow and change?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the symbolic meaning of the butterfly and its significance in the lives of Hằng and Linh. What does the butterfly mean to each of them? How is it symbolic that the butterfly lands on Linh at the fair?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze how storytelling, both oral and written, is used in the novel. Hằng writes down the stories she remembers from her childhood and retells them to Linh in English, but he refuses to acknowledge them. What does this say about the role of storytelling in the book?

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