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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. What is Baby's real name?
(a) Palm.
(b) Sirung.
(c) Nebut.
(d) Ningnong.

5. What was Dara's village like when she was two- or three-years-old?
(a) Ravaged and bombed.
(b) Almost empty.
(c) Poor and needy.
(d) Peaceful and prosperous.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the woman who wrote this book?

3. What does Sarun start doing after breakfast?

4. What does Nea ask Dara to do at the beginning of Chapter 3?

5. What happened to the author on her first day at the border?

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