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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 Hằng think could happen to Lan?

2. How does Linh react to Hằng's confession?

3. What does Amarillo mean?

4. How does Hằng react when she sees herself in the mirror?

5. How is LeeRoy hurt?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why might Hằng be experiencing less nausea at this point in the book?

2. What could it mean that Hằng accepts a piggy-back ride from LeeRoy and giggles?

3. How does the book LeeRoy buy reflect his relationship with his parents?

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

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

6. How does Hằng’s definition of home change?

7. Why is Hằng upset when Angie arrives at the stables?

8. What punishment does Mr. Morgan impose?

9. What is the significance of the Ferris Wheel?

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

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?

Essay Topic 2

Hằng looks, sounds, and behaves differently than the Texans around her. Examine the challenges and significance of language and cultural barriers for Hằng, right from the moment readers meet her in the novel.

Essay Topic 3

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

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