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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the cook call Dara on the next day in Chapter 12?
(a) A skinny, little orphan.
(b) A nasty, little Cambodian.
(c) A helpful little girl.
(d) A sweet and pretty girl.

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

3. What could Dara see behind the grove of jacaranda trees over the thatched roof of the kitchen.
(a) The blue-and-white Khmer Serei flag.
(b) Monkeys swinging through the trees.
(c) A flock of birds.
(d) Several sarongs drying on a line.

4. What is the name of the woman who wrote this book?
(a) Minfong Ho.
(b) Fongchu Ho.
(c) Waeprae Ho.
(d) Leesong Ho.

5. 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 home to Cambodia.
(c) They were killed in a bombing.
(d) They went to look for Dara, Jantu and Baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many soldiers marched up to the flag pole and fired their guns?

2. What does Jantu first ask Dara to do?

3. What does the family talk about first when they are reunited and sit around the campfire?

4. Where does the cook take Dara on the next day in Chapter 12?

5. What caused open conflict to break out in Cambodia in the 1970s

(see the answer key)

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