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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Jantu in Chapter 3?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Fifteen

2. What does Nea ask Dara to do at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Help take care of baby.
(b) Help carry water back from the well.
(c) Help wash the sarongs.
(d) Help cook breakfast.

3. Who lets big, red stinging ants crawl on his arm?
(a) Chnay.
(b) Baby.
(c) Granpa Kem.
(d) Sarun.

4. From what direction was the sound that Dara and Sarun heard coming?
(a) The north.
(b) The east.
(c) The south.
(d) The west.

5. What is the name of the lake by Dara's old village?
(a) Waeprae lake.
(b) Tonle Sap lake.
(c) Thinlong lake.
(d) Tonse Hon lake.

6. Where was Jantu's father killed?
(a) In the guava orchard behind her house.
(b) On the front porch of her house.
(c) In the mango orchard behind her house.
(d) In th e rice paddy behind her house.

7. In what year did the Khmer Rouge declare victory in Cambodia?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1971.

8. During the last two hundred years whose colonialism had Cambodia survived?
(a) Japanese colonialism.
(b) French colonialism.
(c) Chinese colonialism.
(d) British colonialism.

9. What does Jantu look like?
(a) Short and thin.
(b) Heavy and jolly.
(c) Tall and thin.
(d) Average weight and medium height.

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

11. What is the name of the folktale Jantu tells Dara about a coward who turns into a hero?
(a) "Palm the Powerful".
(b) "Khong the Brave".
(c) "Longlu the Coward".
(d) "Kling the Fearful".

12. What happens when Dara and Jantu investigate a food truck they see along the way?
(a) They encounter some mean soldiers.
(b) They find some hot stew made of yellow squash over rice.
(c) Bombs drop, destroying the truck and hurting Baby.
(d) They find some fruit in a pot.

13. How old are most of the children lined up at the food truck?
(a) Five or six.
(b) Six or seven.
(c) Eight or nine.
(d) Ten or eleven.

14. What does the man in the folktale brag he killed?
(a) A panther.
(b) A tiger.
(c) A leopard.
(d) A snake.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jantu comfort Dara at the end of Chapter 8?

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

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

4. A dirt road linked the refugee camp with what Thai town?

5. What was the color of the armbands worn by the officials who ushered the registered team of men into the corrals where the sacks of rice had been placed?

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