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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 the something special that Sarun told Nea he had brought back?

2. How old is Nea who welcomed Dara's family to the refugee camp?

3. What does Dara lose as they flee from the bombing?

4. What does Jantu make out of banana leaves?

5. What sound does Dara hear in the beginning of Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens when Jantu and Dara see some food trucks?

5. Why does Dara's family decide to travel to the refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border?

6. What do Sarun and his family do after their first breakfast in the camp?

7. What happens to Dara when she runs for help for Baby?

8. Cambodia's history dated back how many years to the building of what?

9. What is left of Nea's family?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Describe Dara's job in the kitchen. What was the cook like?

2. Where did the cook take Dara after she had worked in the kitchen a while? What was she told to do there? What dis she disapprove of that the women were doing?

3. How was Dara re-united with her familyl?

4. Choose two of the above to write on.

Essay Topic 2

.1. Who went to see Sarun at the military demonstration and who remained at the camp? Why?

2. What were Jantu's comments about the speech that she and Dara heard over the loudspeakers at the base camp? Do you agree with her? Do you think Jantu or Dara was the true heroine of the book?

3. What had happened during the 10 years after Dara and her family and Nea and her family had been at the border? Who had married? How many children?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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