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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 tragic event happens in the forest on the way back to the base camp?
(a) Dara is shot in the leg.
(b) Nea is shot and mortally wounded.
(c) Jantu is shot and mortally wounded.
(d) Sarun shootsand hits one of the girls.

2. In what kind of tree was the skylark perched when Dara heard it sing?
(a) Guava.
(b) Tamarind.
(c) Sandalwood.
(d) Jacaranda.

3. What does Dara do after lunch on the first day in the kitchen?
(a) Peels a huge basket of yellow squash for a stew.
(b) Chops huge piles of herbs.
(c) Peels potatoes.
(d) Peels a huge basket of garlic.

4. How often does Mother visit Dara after they return home?
(a) Almost every week.
(b) Once a month.
(c) Almost every other day.
(d) Almost every day.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Dara in Chapter 3?

2. When Dara arrives at the Tamarind tree how many people are already lying under it?

3. Where do Dara and Chnay sleep that first night in the beginning of Chapter 11?

4. What is in the middle of the clearing in the forest?

5. What does Jantu whittle out of a knobby branch?

(see the answer key)

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