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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 and 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who watches Dara as she eats her rice?
(a) A monkey.
(b) A Khmer Serei soldier.
(c) The cook.
(d) Chnay.

3. Why do the Communists kill Dara's father?
(a) He was sick.
(b) To put fear into the villagers.
(c) He taunted the Communists.
(d) He knew how to read and write and taught the children.

4. What does the family talk about first when they are reunited and sit around the campfire?
(a) Going home to their village.
(b) The coming monsoons.
(c) Sarun's transformation into a soldier.
(d) The magic marble.

5. Who is Chnay?
(a) One of Jantu's cousins.
(b) One of Dara's neighbors from her village.
(c) An orphan and a bully.
(d) A young soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men jump out of the ambulance when it arrives?

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

3. What is the leader of the base camp wearing around his neck?

4. What did the Communist soldiers tell the villagers?

5. What is the name of the dance the young men and women would dance at harvest time back in Dara's village?

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