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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 is the weather like on the day Dara and Nea start their journey to Khao I Dang?
(a) It's pouring rain.
(b) It's windy and cold.
(c) A light rain is falling.
(d) The sun is shining.

2. Where was Jantu's father killed?
(a) On the front porch of her house.
(b) In th e rice paddy behind her house.
(c) In the mango orchard behind her house.
(d) In the guava orchard behind her house.

3. What does Nea say as she sobs after seeing Jantu is dead?
(a) "Jantu, Jantu, I love you and I'll miss you."
(b) "War is evil."
(c) "She is gone and I want to go too. I want to go home."
(d) "Sarun you shouldn't enlist!" Look what war does."

4. What does the cook call Dara on the next day in Chapter 12?
(a) A skinny, little orphan.
(b) A helpful little girl.
(c) A nasty, little Cambodian.
(d) A sweet and pretty girl.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the lake by Dara's old village?

2. The words spoken over the loudspeaker during the demonstration are likened to what?

3. What does Jantu make out of banana leaves?

4. During the last two hundred years whose colonialism had Cambodia survived?

5. What does Jantu do when she wants absolute silence?

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