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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 and 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time is it when they finally arrive at the Khao I Dang refugee camp?
(a) 1 pm.
(b) High noon.
(c) 3 pm.
(d) 2 pm.

2. In what year did the author travel to Thailand?
(a) The spring of 1981.
(b) The fall of 1979.
(c) The spring of 1980.
(d) The fall of 1978.

3. How long has it been since Dara saw Jantu and her baby brother in Chapter 13?
(a) Over a month.
(b) Over two weeks.
(c) Over five days.
(d) Over a week.

4. Why does Dara call to Mother and Nea in alarm in the morning?
(a) Jantu's cheek feels hot.
(b) Jantu's wound has started bleeding more.
(c) Jantu's body feelscold.
(d) Jantu is moaning loudly.

5. How many Cambodian men, women and children were killed under the Khmer Rouge dictatorship?
(a) More than 70 thousand.
(b) More than 80 thousand.
(c) More than one million.
(d) More than a million and a half.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the man in the folktale brag he killed?

3. What do the Khmer Rouge soldiers tell them over and over?

4. What else happened to Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge regime?

5. What did the Communist soldiers tell the villagers?

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