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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. What does Jantu make out of wild vines?

3. What does Jantu tell Dara after all her dolls and toys had been destroyed?

4. What happened in the same year the Khmer Rouge declared victory in Cambodia?

5. What is Grandpa Kem's team told to do after they register at the camp headquarters?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What team does Sarun join and why?

5. Who is Jantu?

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

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

8. Describe the first person to welcome Dara's family to Nong Chan.

9. What does Jantu make?

10. What is the lunch truck?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. What did Duoic learn from Jantu?

2. Why was it important which fork in the path the girls took on their way back to the base camp? What had Sarun warned?. Who decided which way to go? Which way was it, right or left?

3. What happened when shots rang out? Whose voice did they hear?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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