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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which members of Jantu's family had died during the long war years?
(a) Her parents and one of her younger brothers.
(b) Her parents and her older brother.
(c) Her parents and her younger sister.
(d) Her parents and her older sister.

2. What happens when Dara and Jantu investigate a food truck they see along the way?
(a) They find some hot stew made of yellow squash over rice.
(b) They encounter some mean soldiers.
(c) They find some fruit in a pot.
(d) Bombs drop, destroying the truck and hurting Baby.

3. Who lets big, red stinging ants crawl on his arm?
(a) Chnay.
(b) Sarun.
(c) Baby.
(d) Granpa Kem.

4. Where does Jantu like to play?
(a) In the shelter.
(b) Under the huge tamarind tree.
(c) By the ox cart.
(d) Near the stone pillar.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old are most of the children lined up at the food truck?

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

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

5. What is the Khmer Serei resistance doing to counter the Vietnamese attack?

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