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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 and 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Dara's mother do before departing for the refugee camp?
(a) She packs provisions of rice.
(b) She gathers her family around her, telling them she loved them.
(c) She digs up her silver Buddha figure.
(d) She packs the family's clothes.

3. What marked the beginning of Cambodia's rich history?
(a) .The building of the first Cambodian pagoda.
(b) The festival of the lights.
(c) The festival of the rice harvest.
(d) The building of the Buddhist temple complex of Angkor.

4. What color were the Vietnamese uniforms?
(a) Green.
(b) Brown.
(c) Black.
(d) Blue.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Communist soldiers tell the villagers?

2. What did the ruler who had ruled Cambodia when Dara was two- or three-years-old look like?

3. The author of the book took a leave of absence from what university in order to travel to Thailand?

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

5. Why do the Communists kill Dara's father?

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