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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jantu do to the clay marble to make it magic?
(a) She blesses it.
(b) She asks Buddha to bless it.
(c) She carves a tiny d into it with a tiny stick.
(d) She blows on it.

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

3. What is the something special that Sarun told Nea he had brought back?
(a) Vegetables for a stew for the evening meal.
(b) A new sarong for her.
(c) Rice seed specially treated against insects and mildew.
(d) A bag of fruit.

4. 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.

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

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

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

8. Where does Jantu like to play?
(a) Under the huge tamarind tree.
(b) In the shelter.
(c) Near the stone pillar.
(d) By the ox cart.

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

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

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

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

13. Where is the hospital where they take Jantu and Baby to located?
(a) In the Lu Ho Nong refugee camp.
(b) In the Khao I Dang refugee camp.
(c) In the Ming I Ho refugee camp.
(d) In the Nong Chan refugee camp.

14. What caused open conflict to break out in Cambodia in the 1970s
(a) The rich versus the poor people in Cambodia.
(b) War with Thailand.
(c) War with Vietnam.
(d) The U.S., Soviet Union and China backing political groups.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color were the Communist soldiers dressed in?

2. What injury does Jantu's baby brother have?

3. What does Sarun start doing after breakfast?

4. What does Jantu look like?

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

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