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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 is the name of the refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border?
(a) Nong Chan.
(b) Siem Chan.
(c) Ning Chang.
(d) Lul Chan.

2. Who was the head of the Khmer Rouge?
(a) Pol Pot.
(b) Chang Ho.
(c) Dnang Pot.
(d) Ho Chi Minh.

3. In what country had the author of the book grown up?
(a) The US.
(b) Thailand.
(c) China.
(d) Cambodia.

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

5. What did the ruler who had ruled Cambodia when Dara was two- or three-years-old look like?
(a) Sad and little.
(b) Large with a mean face.
(c) Thin and dark.
(d) Round-faced and smiling.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years did Cambodia's history date back to in the Preface?

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

3. In what year did the author travel to Thailand?

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

5. What is the name of Dara's village?

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