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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. What river 80 miles upstream from Cambodia did the author stroll along?
(a) The Mecong River.
(b) The Yangtze River.
(c) The Yellow River.
(d) The Cambodian River.

2. What did the author of the book do when she arrived in Thailand?
(a) Took photographs.
(b) Visited relatives.
(c) Started a journal.
(d) Joined an international relief agency.

3. How did the author view the refugees?
(a) As victims of a ruthless regime.
(b) As suffering, hungry people.
(c) As victors determined to start their lives over.
(d) As poor, needy people.

4. During the last two hundred years whose colonialism had Cambodia survived?
(a) Chinese colonialism.
(b) Japanese colonialism.
(c) British colonialism.
(d) French colonialism.

5. How old is Nea who welcomed Dara's family to the refugee camp?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) seventeen.
(d) Eighteen or nineteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had ruled Cambodia when Dara was two- or three-years-old?

2. What kind of trees are on the trail in Chapter 1?

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

4. Where do the villagers hide during the bombing?

5. What did the Communist soldiers tell the villagers?

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