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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. Where does Jantu like to play?
(a) In the shelter.
(b) By the ox cart.
(c) Under the huge tamarind tree.
(d) Near the stone pillar.

2. How old is Nea who welcomed Dara's family to the refugee camp?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) seventeen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Eighteen or nineteen.

3. What did the ruler who had ruled Cambodia when Dara was two- or three-years-old look like?
(a) Thin and dark.
(b) Round-faced and smiling.
(c) Large with a mean face.
(d) Sad and little.

4. During the last two hundred years whose colonialism had Cambodia survived?
(a) French colonialism.
(b) Chinese colonialism.
(c) British colonialism.
(d) Japanese colonialism.

5. What kind of trees are on the trail in Chapter 1?
(a) Banana and Guava trees.
(b) Bamboo and palm trees.
(c) Wild tamarind and rain trees.
(d) Mango and teak trees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jantu whittle out of a knobby branch?

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

3. How many Cambodian men, women and children were killed under the Khmer Rouge dictatorship?

4. In what country had the author of the book grown up?

5. What happened in the same year the Khmer Rouge declared victory in Cambodia?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Jantu?

3. What team does Sarun join and why?

4. What happens to Dara when she runs for help for Baby?

5. What do Sarun and his family do after their first breakfast in the camp?

6. What is the lunch truck?

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

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

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

10. Give a short description of the happier days Dara remembered when she was two or three?

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