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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are Hằng and LeeRoy on Mr. Morgan's ranch?
(a) They are working off the damage to the truck.
(b) They need money for food.
(c) It is a punishment from Cora.
(d) They are working for money to get Linh back to Vietnam.

2. What does Hằng want to do when LeeRoy is turned away by the gate man?
(a) She wants to go home.
(b) She wants to see what else is at the ghost rodeo.
(c) She wants to talk to Linh about horses.
(d) She wants to argue with the gate man and try to give him more money to let LeeRoy ride.

3. What is LeeRoy's background?
(a) He is from Austin and has two professors as parents.
(b) He is poor and from Houston.
(c) He is from Northern Texas and his grandfather was the first Black landowner in the state.
(d) He is from Dallas and comes from oil money.

4. What does Hằng plant for herself and LeeRoy?
(a) She plants flowers.
(b) She plants melons so she can sell them at the fair and make more money.
(c) She plants vegetables, including mustard greens, celery, and ginger.
(d) She plants exotic fruit to give to her brother.

5. What happened to Father Grady?
(a) He left the church and got married.
(b) He moved away from Texas.
(c) He was killed in a car accident.
(d) He left for Vietnam again.

6. What was Bà's plan for when Hằng and her mother left by boat?
(a) She was going to try to get a later boat or get to America some other way.
(b) She was going to live with a neighbor.
(c) She was going to move to a new economic zone in the jungle, like their neighbor.
(d) She was going to a hospital.

7. What does Hằng remember looking in the bar?
(a) She remembers Mrs. Brown and her kindness.
(b) She remembers a monk being slashed with a machete on the boat.
(c) She remembers her bus ride and being sick on the bus.
(d) She remembers her uncle.

8. How does LeeRoy stop Chú Quốc's car?
(a) He crashes into the back of the car.
(b) He stops his truck sideways in front of the car.
(c) He calls the police.
(d) He sideswipes the car.

9. What experience does LeeRoy have riding bronc?
(a) He learned to ride from Mr. Morgan.
(b) He learned to ride bronc from his grandfather for years.
(c) He took pony rides as a child and read about Bruce Ford.
(d) He took many lessons in rodeo techniques.

10. Why does LeeRoy not want a job?
(a) He canont find a job.
(b) This is his summer to be a cowboy and he has worked for it.
(c) He does not like to work.
(d) He does not have to work because his parents pay his way.

11. What had happened to the monks on the boat?
(a) The monks protected the refugees.
(b) Before, the pirates had let them be but a new set of pirates lifted their machetes.
(c) The monks were disliked by the other refugees because the refugees were fleeing religious persecution.
(d) The monks prayed with the refugees.

12. Why does LeeRoy not want to knock at Linh's house in the middle of the night?
(a) People in the area shoot at intruders.
(b) He is tired and wants to sleep first.
(c) He wants to get going and leave Hằng on her own.
(d) He is hungry and does not think the people inside will feed them.

13. How does Hằng think she can prevent confessing about what happened at the airport?
(a) She thinks she can pretend not to understand the questions in English.
(b) She thinks she can get LeeRoy to convince her uncle not to be so pushy.
(c) She thinks she can convince her brother to come with her to their uncle's house.
(d) She thinks she can lie to the lawyers.

14. What advice does Bà give about Chú Quốc?
(a) She says that Hằng may need to go around him.
(b) She says that Hằng should obey him.
(c) She says that Hằng should stand up to him.
(d) She says that Hằng should flatter him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does En-Di want to call Hằng?

2. What does Hằng overhear her brother say?

3. What is the goal of saddle bronc?

4. What is LeeRoy's budget?

5. What do the hired hands call Hằng?

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