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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 color were the Communist soldiers dressed in?
(a) Khaki.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Green.

2. What is the name of the lake by Dara's old village?
(a) Waeprae lake.
(b) Thinlong lake.
(c) Tonse Hon lake.
(d) Tonle Sap lake.

3. What makes Dara happy when she thinks of her father?
(a) He would tell her stories at bedtime.
(b) He'd take her in his lap and cover her ears during a storm.
(c) He would sing to her at night.
(d) He would dance with her.

4. Who had ruled Cambodia when Dara was two- or three-years-old?
(a) Prince Singnang.
(b) Prince Soknung.
(c) Prince Sihanouk.
(d) Prince Songdacha.

5. What does Dara's mother do before departing for the refugee camp?
(a) She packs provisions of rice.
(b) She digs up her silver Buddha figure.
(c) She packs the family's clothes.
(d) She gathers her family around her, telling them she loved them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What persuades the family to start packing?

2. What sound does Dara hear in the beginning of Chapter 1?

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

4. What does Jantu make out of banana leaves?

5. What did the author of the book do when she arrived in Thailand?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is hurt during the bombing of the trucks and what is done about it?

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

3. Who marched into Dara's village shortly after she turned twelve and what did they do?

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

5. Who is Jantu?

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

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

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

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