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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border?

3. What does Jantu do to the clay marble to make it magic?

4. What makes Dara happy when she thinks of her father?

5. Who was the head of the Khmer Rouge?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jantu do when Dara tells her she cannot find her way back to the camp?

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

3. What two important events happened in Southeast Asia in 1975?

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

5. How are mangoes important in Jantu's and Dara's lives?

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

7. Where do Jantu and Dara build a shelter and what do they do there?

8. What does Jantu reveal to Dara that was hidden by a palm fronds?

9. What team does Sarun join and why?

10. What does Jantu make?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Describe what Nea and Dara saw of Thailand on their journey to the hospital.

2. Describe the Khao I Dang camp. How was it different from Nong Chan?

3. Describe the hospital at Khao I Dang.

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1. What happened when Dara and Jantu and her baby brother went to investigate the abandoned lunch truck on their flight from the border?

2. What happened when Dara left Jantu and Baby at the food truck to go and get help? Who helped her?

3. What did the red-bearded red cross man do to help Baby? What did he say was wrong with Baby? What did he do with Jantu and Baby? What happened to Dara?

4. Choose two of the topics to write about.

Essay Topic 3

1. Who was Chnay? Describe him.

2. Describe the first appearance of the magic marble. How did it become magic? What was Dara's first response to it? How did she feel about it at the end of Chapter 5?

3. What did Jantu make by the stone pillar? How were the things she made significant to hers and Dara's future?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

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