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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14 and 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Sarun ask his commanding officer for the pass?
(a) The next week.
(b) In two weeks.
(c) That same day.
(d) The next day, after the flag-raising.

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

3. What did the Communist soldiers tell the villagers?
(a) That they were enemies of the Communists.
(b) That the American Imperialists were bombing them.
(c) That their villages would be burned by them.
(d) That they would die of starvation.

4. How many Cambodian men, women and children were killed under the Khmer Rouge dictatorship?
(a) More than 80 thousand.
(b) More than one million.
(c) More than 70 thousand.
(d) More than a million and a half.

5. What does Dara's mother smell like when she holds Dara in her arms?
(a) Bamboo.
(b) Sweet flowers that used to grow in Dara's village.
(c) Rice and stew.
(d) Wet earth after a rainstorm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jantu make out of banana leaves?

2. What does Dara lose as they flee from the bombing?

3. Which members of Jantu's family had died during the long war years?

4. When does Chnay show up for food on the first day Dara works in the kitchen?

5. Who does Dara unintentionally knock down in the thronging crowd of refugees?

(see the answer key)

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