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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 is Jantu's personality like?

2. With whom does Jantu compare the leaders of Cambodia in her teaching story?

3. What does Jantu make out of a couple of old tin cans and a stick?

4. What persuades the family to start packing?

5. Where do the villagers hide during the bombing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Give a short description of the happier days Dara remembered when she was two or three?

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

3. Give a short account of the the wars Cambodia was involved in before the 1970s?

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

5. What suddenly disturbs the relative peace of the camp?

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

7. What injury does Baby have and what is done about it?

8. Who marched into Dara's village shortly after she turned twelve and what did they do?

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

10. What does Jantu make?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Give a short description of Cambodia's history. How far back did it go at the time the book was written? What other countries were involved with Cambodia? How were they involved?

2. How were the Cambodian people treated under the Khmer Rouge regime? Give some examples.

3. Why did Minfong Ho travel to the Thai-Cambodian refugee camp? Where had she been working? What did she end up doing in Thailand?

4. Write on two of the above topics.

Essay Topic 2

1. What were some of the health problems the children at the hospital suffered from?

2. In which ward did Nea and Dara find Jantu and Baby? Describe the ward.

3. Who was Duoic and what was his story?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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