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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Chnay show up for food on the first day Dara works in the kitchen?
(a) When the sun was just setting.
(b) When it is pitch-dark and the full moon has risen.
(c) In the evening when the crescent moon hung in the sky.
(d) At night when it had started to rain.

2. What persuades the family to start packing?
(a) They want to go home before the monsoons.
(b) They have enough supplies and tools.
(c) They want to go to a different refugee camp.
(d) Bombs are dropping at the border.

3. What is Baby's real name?
(a) Palm.
(b) Sirung.
(c) Nebut.
(d) Ningnong.

4. What does the man who talks soothingly to the baby look like?
(a) He's a small, thin Cambodian medic.
(b) He's a Thai Red Cross worker.
(c) He's a white foreigner with a black beard.
(d) He's a white foreigner with a bushy red beard.

5. What is the mobile Jantu makes?
(a) Two mothers rocking their babies.
(b) Two delicate dolls husking rice.
(c) Two farmers planting rince.
(d) Two dogs playing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Dara and Chnay see in a clearing in the forest?

2. What happened when Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia?

3. In what year did the author travel to Thailand?

4. Who lets big, red stinging ants crawl on his arm?

5. Who is the last member of the family to agree to go with the caravan before Sarun agreed to go?

(see the answer key)

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