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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children do Nea and Sarun have?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

2. What is in the middle of the clearing in the forest?
(a) The Khmer Serei General.
(b) The blue and white Khmer Serei flag.
(c) A tall bamboo watch tower.
(d) The Thai flag.

3. Who gives Dara a handful of rice the next morning in Chapter 9?
(a) A little boy.
(b) A kind old man.
(c) A teenaged girl.
(d) A friendly woman.

4. What does Jantu ask Dara to sing to her and her baby brother?
(a) A song about home.
(b) A song about fairies and elves.
(c) A song about women winnowing rice.
(d) A song about young Cambodian lovers.

5. What does Jantu compare war to?
(a) A soccer game.
(b) Slaughter.
(c) A joke.
(d) A mystery.

6. To whom does Dara give some of her rice?
(a) A little lost girl.
(b) An old man.
(c) A monkey on a chain.
(d) A little lost boy.

7. What does Dara do after lunch on the first day in the kitchen?
(a) Peels a huge basket of garlic.
(b) Peels potatoes.
(c) Chops huge piles of herbs.
(d) Peels a huge basket of yellow squash for a stew.

8. Who tends to Jantu when she is brought back to the base camp wounded?
(a) Mother.
(b) Sarun.
(c) Dara.
(d) Nea.

9. Who had Chnay made friends with besides some loner boys?
(a) A motherly woman.
(b) The monkey.
(c) A little girl.
(d) A Buddhist priest.

10. What does Sarun announce to his family after the military demonstration and speech?
(a) That he is going to enlist.
(b) That he hates war.
(c) That he now wants to go home to Cambodia.
(d) That he wants to marry Nea immediately.

11. When is the next distribution of milled rice supposed to take place according to the cook?
(a) Never.
(b) In a week.
(c) In two weeks.
(d) After the flag-raising.

12. What character quality do Dara and Sarun discuss as they talk of Sarun's enlisting in the war?
(a) Toughness.
(b) Courage.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Gentleness.

13. What time is it when they finally arrive at the Khao I Dang refugee camp?
(a) 2 pm.
(b) 3 pm.
(c) 1 pm.
(d) High noon.

14. What are the sexes of Nea's and Sarun's children?
(a) Two boys and a girl.
(b) Two girls and a boy.
(c) Three boys.
(d) Three girls.

15. When does Sarun ask his commanding officer for the pass?
(a) The next day, after the flag-raising.
(b) The next week.
(c) In two weeks.
(d) That same day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dara doing as she talks with Sarun about enlisting versus going home to plant rice?

2. How often does Mother visit Dara after they return home?

3. After Nea, Dara and the others have prepared the ox carts for the trip home; in how many days will the caravan to Siem Reap leave?

4. Who is the leader of the Khmer Serei soldiers?

5. What warning does Sarun give to the girls about their trip to get Jantu and Baby?

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