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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 the leader of the base camp wearing around his neck?
(a) A huge tiger's tooth.
(b) A silver figure of Buddha.
(c) A huge bear's tooth.
(d) A bronze Khmer Serei emblem.

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

3. What does the cook call Dara on the next day in Chapter 12?
(a) A sweet and pretty girl.
(b) A nasty, little Cambodian.
(c) A skinny, little orphan.
(d) A helpful little girl.

4. To whom does Dara give some of her rice?
(a) A monkey on a chain.
(b) An old man.
(c) A little lost boy.
(d) A little lost girl.

5. Where is Jantu's wound located on her body?
(a) Straight across her chest.
(b) Between her right nipple and her belly button.
(c) From her left shoulder to her right nipple.
(d) Between her left nipple and her belly button.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years had passed in the Afterword since the time at the border?

2. Where is most of the fighting taking place?

3. What does Jantu compare war to?

4. What kind of moon is rising as Dara tries to find her way back to her family?

5. Who goes to the flag-raising to see Sarun?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the speech Dara and Jantu hear coming over the loudspeakers.

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

3. When Nea asks Sarun if he can come with them to find Jantu and her baby brother what does he answer?

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

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

6. What does Chnay tell Dara when she accuses him of breaking the clay dolls?

7. What do Dara and Chnay see when they get part way into the forest on their way to find Sarun and the family?

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

9. Describe the Khao I Dang refugee camp.

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

(see the answer keys)

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