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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. Who is Chnay?
(a) A young soldier.
(b) An orphan and a bully.
(c) One of Jantu's cousins.
(d) One of Dara's neighbors from her village.

2. Where do Jantu and Dara take their food truck food to eat it?
(a) Back to their shelter.
(b) Under the shade of an acacia tree.
(c) To the stream running through the camp.
(d) Under the shade of a tamarind tree.

3. What happened to the author on her first day at the border?
(a) A mother thanked her for coming.
(b) A little child hugged her.
(c) A little child gave her a ball of mud.
(d) A little girl shared her rice with her.

4. What is Jantu's personality like?
(a) Mean and stingy.
(b) Outgoing and friendly.
(c) Noisy and pushy.
(d) Shy and retiring.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Jantu comfort Dara at the end of Chapter 8?

4. How old is Jantu in Chapter 3?

5. What does the man who talks soothingly to the baby look like?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the lunch truck?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Sarun tell his family about Nong Chan?

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

10. Who is Jantu?

(see the answer keys)

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