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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. How many horses does the cowboy, Mr. Johnston, have?

2. Who does Ha wake in the night to complain about her first day of school?

3. How does Mother try to replicate the sound of a brass gong when she chants?

4. How many boys follow Ha home after her first day at school in America?

5. What is thrown and breaks a window at the house Ha and her family are renting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is it like when Ha registers for school?

2. What does Mrs. Washington offer to do for Ha when she learns that Ha eats lunch in the bathroom at school?

3. In "The Outside," what does everyone do when school starts?

4. How do the neighbors treat Ha and her family?

5. What conversation do Ha and Mrs. Washington have about Mrs. Washington's son?

6. Why is it difficult for Ha to translate the sentence, "Jane sees Spot run"?

7. What is lunch like for Ha on her first day of school?

8. What does Ha hear from her mother in the night and what does Ha realize?

9. What food do Ha and her family eat when they live with the cowboy?

10. Af first, what photos does Miss Scott show in class of Vietnam, and what photos does Ha think her teacher should show?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Some of the experiences in the author’s life mirror what Ha and her family experienced in Inside Out & Back Again. How and why did Lai fictionalize some of the experiences she and her family endured when they fled from Vietnam and settled in the United States?

Essay Topic 2

Setting is the place where a story happens. Where are the two main places where Inside Out & Back Again take place? How does Ha feel about Vietnam and America and why?

Essay Topic 3

Ha and students in her fourth grade class think she is dumb. Why do Ha and her classmates think she is dumb? Why is that perception not an accurate gauge of her intelligence?

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