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

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

3. In what year did the Khmer Rouge declare victory in Cambodia?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1971.

4. How many years did Cambodia's history date back to in the Preface?
(a) Over two thousand years.
(b) Over three thousand years.
(c) Over one thousand years.
(d) Over 700 years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dara's mother do before departing for the refugee camp?

2. What was Dara's village like when she was two- or three-years-old?

3. From what direction was the sound that Dara and Sarun heard coming?

4. Where do the villagers hide during the bombing?

5. How many Cambodian men, women and children were killed under the Khmer Rouge dictatorship?

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