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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 does Dara do the next morning in the kitchen?
(a) Polishes silverware.
(b) Scrubs very dirty pots.
(c) Peels potatoes.
(d) Starts the lunch.

2. Why isn't Dara's family at the campsite when Dara arrives there?
(a) They went to the soldiers' base camp to be safe.
(b) They went to look for Dara, Jantu and Baby.
(c) They were killed in a bombing.
(d) They went home to Cambodia.

3. What does Nea ask Dara to do at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Help take care of baby.
(b) Help carry water back from the well.
(c) Help cook breakfast.
(d) Help wash the sarongs.

4. Who does Dara unintentionally knock down in the thronging crowd of refugees?
(a) Two little girls.
(b) A boy and an old man.
(c) A young woman and her baby.
(d) A boy and an old woman.

5. What disturbs the relative peace in the camp?
(a) An outbreak of a contagious disease.
(b) Families fighting with one another.
(c) Sudden food shortage.
(d) Bombs, shelling and soldiers recruiting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What plea does Dara make to find her mother?

2. What sound does Dara hear in the beginning of Chapter 1?

3. About how many people were estimated to be at camp Nong Chan?

4. Where do Chnay and Dara pause after going down a path veering off from the square farther into the camp?

5. After Nea, Dara and the others have prepared the ox carts for the trip home; in how many days will the caravan to Siem Reap leave?

(see the answer key)

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