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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 Dara hear reports of a peace plan?
(a) In the newspaper.
(b) From Sarun.
(c) From a neighboring village.
(d) Over the radio.

2. What delicious food does Dara smell in the camp?
(a) Roast chicken.
(b) Roast beef.
(c) Roast port.
(d) Roast lamb.

3. How many women were busy pounding rice?
(a) Ten women working in pairs.
(b) Eight women working in pairs.
(c) Four women working in pairs.
(d) Six women working in pairs.

4. What does Dara see when she wakes up the morning they are to leave for Siem Reap?
(a) Nea rocking Baby.
(b) The oxen pawing the earth eager to go.
(c) A full moon and a bright morning star.
(d) Her family already eating breakfast.

5. Where do Chnay and Dara pause after going down a path veering off from the square farther into the camp?
(a) At a narrow wooden bridge spanning a deep trench.
(b) At a tamarind tree when they stop to rest.
(c) At a large wooden shelter that smelled of food.
(d) At a stream where they bathed their feet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What tragic event happens in the forest on the way back to the base camp?

3. How will Nea and Dara get to the refugee camp where Jantu and Baby are in the hospital?

4. Who is the leader of the Khmer Serei soldiers?

5. What was the name of the Vietnamese-backed government?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Sarun and his family leave the campsite at Nong Chan?

2. In Chapter 18 what does Nea reveal to Dara about the marbles?

3. When does Chnay finally show up the first day Dara works in the kitchen , what does Dara give him and what does he say?

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

5. How is Dara reunited with her family at the end of Chapter 12?

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

7. Who goes with Sarun to the flag-raising and who stays behind with Jantu and why?

8. Describe the morning they leave for home.

9. What is the legacy of the magic marble and the clay toys Jantu taught Dara to make?

10. How does Dara's mother tend to Jantu after she'd brought back to the base camp in Chapter 16?

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