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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dara lose as they flee from the bombing?
(a) Her apron.
(b) Her sandals.
(c) Her kerchief.
(d) Her bracelet.

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

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

4. 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?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Black.
(d) Green.

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

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

7. How high are the piles of stacked rice?
(a) 10 ft. high.
(b) Twice Dara's height.
(c) 12 ft. high.
(d) Twice Sarun's height.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is Jantu's personality like?
(a) Outgoing and friendly.
(b) Shy and retiring.
(c) Mean and stingy.
(d) Noisy and pushy.

14. What does the food truck stop next to?
(a) A signpost with a big blue "3" written on it.
(b) A signpost with a big red "3" written on it.
(c) A signpost with a big blue "2" written on it.
(d) A signpost with a big red "2" written on it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color were the Communist soldiers dressed in?

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

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

4. From what direction was the sound that Dara and Sarun heard coming?

5. During the last two hundred years whose colonialism had Cambodia survived?

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