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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) Put her baby brother in the hammock.
(b) Bring her some rice.
(c) Promise to take her to the hospital the next day.
(d) Make a new magic marble.

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

3. What does Dara do the next morning in the kitchen?
(a) Polishes silverware.
(b) Scrubs very dirty pots.
(c) Starts the lunch.
(d) Peels potatoes.

4. How will Nea and Dara get to the refugee camp where Jantu and Baby are in the hospital?
(a) In an oxcart.
(b) In a Red Cross Van.
(c) In a Thai ambulance.
(d) By foot.

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

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

7. What is Dara doing as she talks with Sarun about enlisting versus going home to plant rice?
(a) Shaking with emotion.
(b) Crying.
(c) Silently praying to Lord Buddha.
(d) Shaping a clay marble.

8. Where is most of the fighting taking place?
(a) In the North.
(b) On the border.
(c) In the West.
(d) In the East.

9. What does the family talk about first when they are reunited and sit around the campfire?
(a) Sarun's transformation into a soldier.
(b) The magic marble.
(c) The coming monsoons.
(d) Going home to their village.

10. What could Dara see behind the grove of jacaranda trees over the thatched roof of the kitchen.
(a) The blue-and-white Khmer Serei flag.
(b) Monkeys swinging through the trees.
(c) A flock of birds.
(d) Several sarongs drying on a line.

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

12. 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) Mother.
(d) Nea.

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

14. Where do Chnay and Dara pause after going down a path veering off from the square farther into the camp?
(a) At a stream where they bathed their feet.
(b) At a tamarind tree when they stop to rest.
(c) At a large wooden shelter that smelled of food.
(d) At a narrow wooden bridge spanning a deep trench.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the magic--in Jantu's marble or in Dara's marble?

2. How many children do Nea and Sarun have?

3. Where does the cook take Dara on the next day in Chapter 12?

4. How long has it been since Dara saw Jantu and her baby brother in Chapter 13?

5. How many years had passed in the Afterword since the time at the border?

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