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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. How many times a day are the bombs dropped on the village?

2. How far is the camp headquarters from where Dara's family is living?

3. Who had ruled Cambodia when Dara was two- or three-years-old?

4. What is the something special that Sarun told Nea he had brought back?

5. In what country had the author of the book grown up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are of the stories Jantu tells to Dara?

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

3. What does Jantu make for Dara that makes her feel better after Chnay destroys a pair of dolls Jantu made?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who is Jantu?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

1. Describe the significance of mango trees to Jantu's and Dara's fathers?

2. Why did the Khmer Serei resistance at the border have to recruit more men and how did that affect Dara's family?

3. What did Jantu mean when she told Dara "Things that can break are not worth taking" when they were fleeing the bombs?

4. Choose two of the above topics and write on them.

Essay Topic 3

1. What was the story of "Khong the Brave" ? Tell the story.

2. What is the story of the famiy of deaf men that Jantu told to Dara? How does it relate to the war in Cambodia?

3. What did Jantu make with her hands? What materials did she use?

4. Choose two of the above topics to write on.

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