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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jantu tell Dara after all her dolls and toys had been destroyed?
(a) "Never mind, we can always start something new".
(b) "Life is so hard."
(c) "My heart is broken like the toys."
(d) "I'll never make a toy again."

2. What does Jantu make out of banana leaves?
(a) A bracelet for Dara and one for herself.
(b) Two small boats.
(c) A plump goldfish or angular frogs.
(d) Tiny hammocks for her clay village.

3. What is the Khmer Serei resistance doing to counter the Vietnamese attack?
(a) Invading Cambodia.
(b) Fleeing deeper into Thailand.
(c) Building up their arms.
(d) Recruiting more men.

4. How many times a day are the bombs dropped on the village?
(a) As otten as three or four times a day.
(b) About twice a day.
(c) As often as five or six times a day.
(d) Once a day.

5. Where do Jantu and Dara take their food truck food to eat it?
(a) Under the shade of a tamarind tree.
(b) Back to their shelter.
(c) Under the shade of an acacia tree.
(d) To the stream running through the camp.

6. Who had ruled Cambodia when Dara was two- or three-years-old?
(a) Prince Soknung.
(b) Prince Sihanouk.
(c) Prince Songdacha.
(d) Prince Singnang.

7. A dirt road linked the refugee camp with what Thai town?
(a) Aranyaprathet.
(b) Laochan.
(c) Khao Dang.
(d) Arandnang.

8. What does Sarun start doing after breakfast?
(a) He goes off with another Cambodian boy.
(b) He starts building a shelter.
(c) He prayswith his mother to Buddha.
(d) He explores the camp.

9. How many men jump out of the ambulance when it arrives?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

10. What sound does Dara hear in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) The tinkling of a cow bell.
(b) The mooing of a cow.
(c) The sound of dogs barking.
(d) The sound guns and bombs..

11. What does Sarun want to do in the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Join the army and fight for Cambodia.
(b) Emigrate to the United States
(c) Gather supplies and go home to plant before the monsoons.
(d) Settle in Thailand.

12. How did the author view the refugees?
(a) As victims of a ruthless regime.
(b) As victors determined to start their lives over.
(c) As suffering, hungry people.
(d) As poor, needy people.

13. Why do the Communists kill Dara's father?
(a) He knew how to read and write and taught the children.
(b) He was sick.
(c) To put fear into the villagers.
(d) He taunted the Communists.

14. Where do the villagers hide during the bombing?
(a) In the forest.
(b) In trenches dug by the farmers.
(c) In their houses.
(d) In the temple.

15. What does Dara's mother do before departing for the refugee camp?
(a) She packs provisions of rice.
(b) She packs the family's clothes.
(c) She digs up her silver Buddha figure.
(d) She gathers her family around her, telling them she loved them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Nea who welcomed Dara's family to the refugee camp?

2. What marked the beginning of Cambodia's rich history?

3. Where does Jantu like to play?

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

5. Who is Chnay?

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