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

2. The author of the book took a leave of absence from what university in order to travel to Thailand?
(a) Cornell University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Columbia University.

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

4. What is the mobile Jantu makes?
(a) Two mothers rocking their babies.
(b) Two farmers planting rince.
(c) Two delicate dolls husking rice.
(d) Two dogs playing.

5. What does Sarun want to do in the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Join the army and fight for Cambodia.
(b) Settle in Thailand.
(c) Emigrate to the United States
(d) Gather supplies and go home to plant before the monsoons.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Jantu like to play?

3. What is the name of the woman who wrote this book?

4. What else happened to Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge regime?

5. How far is the camp headquarters from where Dara's family is living?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are of the stories Jantu tells to Dara?

2. What team does Sarun join and why?

3. What does Jantu reveal to Dara that was hidden by a palm fronds?

4. Why does Dara's family decide to travel to the refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border?

5. What suddenly disturbs the relative peace of the camp?

6. How are mangoes important in Jantu's and Dara's lives?

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

8. What is the lunch truck?

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

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

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