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

2. What is the something special that Sarun told Nea he had brought back?
(a) Rice seed specially treated against insects and mildew.
(b) A bag of fruit.
(c) A new sarong for her.
(d) Vegetables for a stew for the evening meal.

3. What river 80 miles upstream from Cambodia did the author stroll along?
(a) The Mecong River.
(b) The Cambodian River.
(c) The Yellow River.
(d) The Yangtze River.

4. What does the man who talks soothingly to the baby look like?
(a) He's a small, thin Cambodian medic.
(b) He's a Thai Red Cross worker.
(c) He's a white foreigner with a black beard.
(d) He's a white foreigner with a bushy red beard.

5. In what year did the author travel to Thailand?
(a) The spring of 1980.
(b) The fall of 1978.
(c) The spring of 1981.
(d) The fall of 1979.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the author on her first day at the border?

2. What caused open conflict to break out in Cambodia in the 1970s

3. What happened when Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia?

4. Where do Jantu and Dara take their food truck food to eat it?

5. Who was the head of the Khmer Rouge?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is left of Nea's family?

2. What happens when Jantu and Dara see some food trucks?

3. What are the basic rations refugee families receive and what do they do when they first arrive at camp?

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

5. What injury does Baby have and what is done about it?

6. What does Sarun proudly show Nea when he returns from the distribution center?

7. Where do Jantu and Dara build a shelter and what do they do there?

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

9. Give a short account of the the wars Cambodia was involved in before the 1970s?

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

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