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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dara want to teach her daughter?
(a) How to make a magic marble herself.
(b) How to make toys.
(c) How to make a sarong.
(d) How to make a tiny village of clay.

2. What does Nea say as she sobs after seeing Jantu is dead?
(a) "Jantu, Jantu, I love you and I'll miss you."
(b) "War is evil."
(c) "She is gone and I want to go too. I want to go home."
(d) "Sarun you shouldn't enlist!" Look what war does."

3. How many tries did Chnay make in order to perfect the wooden cowbell he carved for Dara?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

4. What does Dara's mother smell like when she holds Dara in her arms?
(a) Sweet flowers that used to grow in Dara's village.
(b) Rice and stew.
(c) Wet earth after a rainstorm.
(d) Bamboo.

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

6. How many years had passed in the Afterword since the time at the border?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 9.

7. Who watches Dara as she eats her rice?
(a) A monkey.
(b) The cook.
(c) Chnay.
(d) A Khmer Serei soldier.

8. What does Dara find when she reaches the stone pillar?
(a) A note from Sarun.
(b) A note from Mother.
(c) Broken clay dolls.
(d) A note from Nea.

9. How is Khao I Dang different from Nong Chan?
(a) There's a huge lake in the middle of the camp.
(b) Everything is in perfect order.
(c) There are many fruit trees.
(d) It's surrounded by a high wooden fence.

10. How many women were busy pounding rice?
(a) Six women working in pairs.
(b) Eight women working in pairs.
(c) Ten women working in pairs.
(d) Four women working in pairs.

11. What delicious food does Dara smell in the camp?
(a) Roast lamb.
(b) Roast port.
(c) Roast chicken.
(d) Roast beef.

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

13. What tragic event happens in the forest on the way back to the base camp?
(a) Nea is shot and mortally wounded.
(b) Sarun shootsand hits one of the girls.
(c) Jantu is shot and mortally wounded.
(d) Dara is shot in the leg.

14. Where does Dara hear reports of a peace plan?
(a) In the newspaper.
(b) From a neighboring village.
(c) From Sarun.
(d) Over the radio.

15. Who is the last member of the family to agree to go with the caravan before Sarun agreed to go?
(a) Dara.
(b) Grandpa Kem.
(c) Nea.
(d) Mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Dara placed over Jantu before she was cremated?

2. 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?

3. What does Dara see when she wakes up the morning they are to leave for Siem Reap?

4. How many children do Nea and Sarun have?

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

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