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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 happened in the same year the Khmer Rouge declared victory in Cambodia?
(a) The Communists "liberated" Vietnam.
(b) The US entered the Vietnam war.
(c) Cambodians rallied under one of their soldiers.
(d) South and North Vietnam turned against one another.

2. What was the color of the armbands worn by the officials who ushered the registered team of men into the corrals where the sacks of rice had been placed?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Black.

3. What does Sarun start doing after breakfast?
(a) He goes off with another Cambodian boy.
(b) He prayswith his mother to Buddha.
(c) He explores the camp.
(d) He starts building a shelter.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Nea who welcomed Dara's family to the refugee camp?

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

3. How old is Dara in Chapter 3?

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

5. A dirt road linked the refugee camp with what Thai town?

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