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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 and 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Jantu and Dara take their food truck food to eat it?
(a) Under the shade of a tamarind tree.
(b) Under the shade of an acacia tree.
(c) To the stream running through the camp.
(d) Back to their shelter.

2. What is the mobile Jantu makes?
(a) Two farmers planting rince.
(b) Two delicate dolls husking rice.
(c) Two mothers rocking their babies.
(d) Two dogs playing.

3. What happened in the same year the Khmer Rouge declared victory in Cambodia?
(a) South and North Vietnam turned against one another.
(b) Cambodians rallied under one of their soldiers.
(c) The US entered the Vietnam war.
(d) The Communists "liberated" Vietnam.

4. What does Jantu make out of a couple of old tin cans and a stick?
(a) A make-bellieve telephone.
(b) Two containers for clay marbles.
(c) A toy truck.
(d) A drum for Dara and one for herself and a drumstick.

5. When Dara asks Chnay who broke the clay dolls what does he say?
(a) That Sarun did it accidentally.
(b) That he broke them out of spite.
(c) That several Thai soldiers broke them/
(d) That one of the refugees broke them.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country had the author of the book grown up?

2. Who is the leader of the Khmer Serei soldiers?

3. How many times a day are the bombs dropped on the village?

4. What kind of moon is rising as Dara tries to find her way back to her family?

5. Which members of Jantu's family had died during the long war years?

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