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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What plea does Dara make to find her mother?
(a) She please with soldiers she meets to help find her mother.
(b) She asks Lord Buddha's help to find her mother.
(c) She pleas with refugees she meets to help find her mother.
(d) She asks the magic marble for help her find her mother.

2. Where does the cook take Dara on the next day in Chapter 12?
(a) To Kung Silor.
(b) To the orchard to pick fruit.
(c) Past the parade grounds to a low, thatched shed.
(d) To the garden to gather vegetables.

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

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

5. Where was the magic--in Jantu's marble or in Dara's marble?
(a) In both marbles.
(b) In Dara's marble.
(c) In Jantu's marble.
(d) In neither, but rather in Jantu and Dara themselves.

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

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

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

9. What makes Sarun change his mind and go ask for the pass?
(a) He is suddenly ashamed of himself for his selfishness.
(b) Mother pleads with him.
(c) Nea flirts with him.
(d) Dara threatens to go to Kung Silor herself and ask.

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

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

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

13. When Dara asks Chnay in what direction her family went, what does he answer?
(a) Northwest.
(b) Southeast.
(c) Southwest.
(d) Northeast.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the cook call Dara on the next day in Chapter 12?

3. What does Dara protest about to the cook on the second afternoon in Chapter 12?

4. When do Dara and Nea ask Sarun to get them a pass to find Jantu and Baby?

5. What are the girls taking turns doing when they are walking in the forest toward the base camp?

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