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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how many people were estimated to be at camp Nong Chan?
(a) About 10 thousand.
(b) About 4 thousand.
(c) About 40 thousand.
(d) About 30 thousand.

2. What is Grandpa Kem's team told to do after they register at the camp headquarters?
(a) Wait to be notified at their shelter.
(b) Return in three days.
(c) Return the next day.
(d) Return in two days.

3. What do the Khmer Rouge soldiers tell them over and over?
(a) Prosperous times were coming.
(b) Cambodia was a family, the Communist party the parent.
(c) Cambodians were inferior people.
(d) They loved Cambodians.

4. In what country had the author of the book grown up?
(a) Thailand.
(b) Cambodia.
(c) The US.
(d) China.

5. How old are most of the children lined up at the food truck?
(a) Eight or nine.
(b) Five or six.
(c) Six or seven.
(d) Ten or eleven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the folktale Jantu tells Dara about a coward who turns into a hero?

2. During the last two hundred years whose colonialism had Cambodia survived?

3. What does the man in the folktale brag he killed?

4. What makes Dara happy when she thinks of her father?

5. What does Dara's mother do before departing for the refugee camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the first person to welcome Dara's family to Nong Chan.

2. What team does Sarun join and why?

3. Cambodia's history dated back how many years to the building of what?

4. What does Jantu do when Dara tells her she cannot find her way back to the camp?

5. What does Jantu make?

6. What does Jantu make for Dara that makes her feel better after Chnay destroys a pair of dolls Jantu made?

7. What two important events happened in Southeast Asia in 1975?

8. What happened during the 1970s which led to open conflict in Cambodia?

9. What is the lunch truck?

10. What were some of the things that happened to the Cambodian people under the Khmer Rouge?

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