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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. Where do the villagers hide during the bombing?
(a) In trenches dug by the farmers.
(b) In their houses.
(c) In the temple.
(d) In the forest.

2. What sound does Dara hear in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) The sound of dogs barking.
(b) The tinkling of a cow bell.
(c) The sound guns and bombs..
(d) The mooing of a cow.

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

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

5. Where do Jantu and Dara take their food truck food to eat it?
(a) Under the shade of an acacia tree.
(b) Back to their shelter.
(c) To the stream running through the camp.
(d) Under the shade of a tamarind tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color were the Communist soldiers dressed in?

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

3. What happened in the same year the Khmer Rouge declared victory in Cambodia?

4. What caused open conflict to break out in Cambodia in the 1970s

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

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