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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. Where is most of the fighting taking place?

2. What is Dara doing as she talks with Sarun about enlisting versus going home to plant rice?

3. What makes Sarun change his mind and go ask for the pass?

4. Why isn't Dara's family at the campsite when Dara arrives there?

5. When does Chnay show up for food on the first day Dara works in the kitchen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chnay give Dara and why won't he come with them?

2. Describe Jantu's cremation.

3. How does Dara prove her courage in Chapter 17?

4. What tragic event happens in the forest after the sun has gone down when Dara, Nea, Jantu and Baby are returning to the base camp?

5. Where do they sleep the first night in the forest?

6. How is Dara reunited with her family at the end of Chapter 12?

7. What does Chnay tell Dara when she accuses him of breaking the clay dolls?

8. What does Jantu request that Dara do at the end of Chapter 16?

9. What do Dara and Chnay see when they get part way into the forest on their way to find Sarun and the family?

10. What do Dara and Nea do after they finish loading the ox carts for the trip home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Who was Chnay? Describe him.

2. Describe the first appearance of the magic marble. How did it become magic? What was Dara's first response to it? How did she feel about it at the end of Chapter 5?

3. What did Jantu make by the stone pillar? How were the things she made significant to hers and Dara's future?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1.Describe the encounter between Dara and Chnay when Dara returned to the stone pillar in her search for her family. What did Chnay tell Dara about her family? Where did they go? Why shouldn't she blame him for the destruction of the clay dolls?

2. What was going on in the clearing in the forest which was on the way to the base camp where Dara and Chnay were going to look for Dara's family?

3. Describe Chnay's and Dara's adventure in the base camp kitchen. Whom did they encounter? What was the outcome? What had lured them there?

4. Choose two of the above topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1. What did Dara's mother do before traveling to the refugee camp? Why?

2. Why did Sarun's helping a man get his cart out of a deep rut it had slipped into mark a change in Dara's family's attitude? What did Sarun learn from the farmer who drove the cart?

3. What did Dara and her family encounter when they entered Nong Chan?

4. Write on two of the three topics.

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