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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jantu first ask Dara to do?
(a) Bring her some rice.
(b) Put her baby brother in the hammock.
(c) Promise to take her to the hospital the next day.
(d) Make a new magic marble.

2. What had Dara wished she had been able to give Jantu?
(a) A songbook.
(b) A figure of Lord Buddha.
(c) Something she had made.
(d) A book of folktales.

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

4. Before Sarun goes to the flag-raising what does Jantu ask him to do?
(a) Arrange for the Red Cross van to take her to the hospital.
(b) Move her to the outside hammock.
(c) Extract the bullet.
(d) Bring her something to eat.

5. What does Sarun say is the big chance he now has?
(a) He has sentry duty and can use his gun.
(b) He will soon drive the family oxcart home to Siem Reap.
(c) He is able to join Kung Silor's army.
(d) He will be marrying Nea soon.

6. What do Nea and Dara do after loading the carts?
(a) They have a celebration with stew over rice.
(b) They rest for a day and massage each other.
(c) They dance around the Tamarind tree with joy.
(d) They give prayers of thanks to Lord Buddha.

7. What does Dara see when she wakes up the morning they are to leave for Siem Reap?
(a) Nea rocking Baby.
(b) The oxen pawing the earth eager to go.
(c) Her family already eating breakfast.
(d) A full moon and a bright morning star.

8. Where do Dara and Chnay sleep that first night in the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) In a shelter they shared with a refugee family.
(b) In an abandoned lean-to with torn thatching for a roof.
(c) In a grove of guava trees.
(d) Under a huge Tamarind tree.

9. What do Chnay and Dara do on the first day in the Khmer Serei military camp?
(a) They rest and pray to Lord Buddha for hellp.
(b) They ask everyone if they have seen Dara's family.
(c) Circle outer edges of the camp searching for Dara's familly.
(d) They search for food.

10. When Dara asks Chnay who broke the clay dolls what does he say?
(a) That one of the refugees broke them.
(b) That several Thai soldiers broke them/
(c) That Sarun did it accidentally.
(d) That he broke them out of spite.

11. When Nea and Dara ask Sarun to get the pass to Khao I Dang from his commanding officer what does he say?
(a) "Impossible, my commanding officer is very busy."
(b) "I'll do it right away."
(c) "I'm sorry not now, but I'll try tomorrow."
(d) "You go get the pass yourselves."

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

13. How far away is the base camp where Dara wants to search for her family?
(a) About four miles.
(b) About three miles.
(c) About five miles.
(d) About two miles.

14. What is the weather like on the day Dara and Nea start their journey to Khao I Dang?
(a) It's pouring rain.
(b) The sun is shining.
(c) A light rain is falling.
(d) It's windy and cold.

15. Where does Mother live after they return home to Siem Reap?
(a) With Grandpa Kem.
(b) With a neighbor.
(c) With Nea and Sarun.
(d) Alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why isn't Dara's family at the campsite when Dara arrives there?

2. What does Jantu ask Dara to sing to her and her baby brother?

3. Where is most of the fighting taking place?

4. When is the next distribution of milled rice supposed to take place according to the cook?

5. Who tends to Jantu when she is brought back to the base camp wounded?

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