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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jantu make out of wild vines?
(a) A delicate bracelet.
(b) A green crown for Dara's head.
(c) A miniature swing for the toy village.
(d) A delicate necklace for Dara.

2. What did the ruler who had ruled Cambodia when Dara was two- or three-years-old look like?
(a) Round-faced and smiling.
(b) Large with a mean face.
(c) Sad and little.
(d) Thin and dark.

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

4. How does Jantu comfort Dara at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) She tells her a comforting story.
(b) She sings Dara a lullaby.
(c) She makes her a magic clay marble.
(d) She tells Dara how proud she is of her.

5. What does Jantu whittle out of a knobby branch?
(a) A mango tree.
(b) A cane for Mother.
(c) A whirling top.
(d) A tamarind tree.

6. What does Sarun return with from the second mass distribution?
(a) Vegetables for stew.
(b) Varous fruits.
(c) More rice seed.
(d) Hoe heads and fishnets.

7. What happened when Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia?
(a) Cambodians suffered even more hardship.
(b) Cambodians began to back the Khmer Rouge.
(c) Cambodians gave up all hope.
(d) Cambodians were able to flee their country.

8. Who is Chnay?
(a) One of Dara's neighbors from her village.
(b) An orphan and a bully.
(c) A young soldier.
(d) One of Jantu's cousins.

9. What marked the beginning of Cambodia's rich history?
(a) The festival of the lights.
(b) .The building of the first Cambodian pagoda.
(c) The building of the Buddhist temple complex of Angkor.
(d) The festival of the rice harvest.

10. How old is Nea who welcomed Dara's family to the refugee camp?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) seventeen.
(c) Eighteen or nineteen.
(d) Fifteen.

11. What did the author of the book do when she arrived in Thailand?
(a) Joined an international relief agency.
(b) Started a journal.
(c) Took photographs.
(d) Visited relatives.

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

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

14. 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.

15. The author of the book took a leave of absence from what university in order to travel to Thailand?
(a) Cornell University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Princeton University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Khmer Serei resistance doing to counter the Vietnamese attack?

2. What is the something special that Sarun told Nea he had brought back?

3. How did the author serve the refugees in Thailand?

4. What color were the Communist soldiers dressed in?

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

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