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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 Dara doing as she talks with Sarun about enlisting versus going home to plant rice?
(a) Shaping a clay marble.
(b) Shaking with emotion.
(c) Crying.
(d) Silently praying to Lord Buddha.

2. What is the weather like on the day Dara and Nea start their journey to Khao I Dang?
(a) It's windy and cold.
(b) It's pouring rain.
(c) A light rain is falling.
(d) The sun is shining.

3. What does Dara do after lunch on the first day in the kitchen?
(a) Peels a huge basket of yellow squash for a stew.
(b) Peels a huge basket of garlic.
(c) Peels potatoes.
(d) Chops huge piles of herbs.

4. What does Sarun announce to his family after the military demonstration and speech?
(a) That he hates war.
(b) That he now wants to go home to Cambodia.
(c) That he is going to enlist.
(d) That he wants to marry Nea immediately.

5. How will Nea and Dara get to the refugee camp where Jantu and Baby are in the hospital?
(a) In a Red Cross Van.
(b) By foot.
(c) In an oxcart.
(d) In a Thai ambulance.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what kind of tree was the skylark perched when Dara heard it sing?

2. What are the sexes of Nea's and Sarun's children?

3. How long has it been since Dara saw Jantu and her baby brother in Chapter 13?

4. Where does the cook take Dara on the next day in Chapter 12?

5. Why is the boy, Duoic, in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at the end of the fourth day?

2. Where does the cook take Dara on the second afternoon and what does she have to do?

3. What do Dara and Nea do after they finish loading the ox carts for the trip home?

4. What does Dara find when she returns to Nong Chan?

5. Where do they sleep the first night in the forest?

6. Describe the Khao I Dang refugee camp.

7. What does Jantu request that Dara do at the end of Chapter 16?

8. What tragic event happens in the forest after the sun has gone down when Dara, Nea, Jantu and Baby are returning to the base camp?

9. What happens to Dara and Sarun when they return to Siem Reap?

10. How does Dara prove her courage in Chapter 17?

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