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

2. During the last two hundred years whose colonialism had Cambodia survived?

3. What is the name of the lake by Dara's old village?

4. What happened to the author on her first day at the border?

5. What does Jantu make out of wild vines?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is left of Nea's family?

7. What is the lunch truck?

8. What does Sarun proudly show Nea when he returns from the distribution center?

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

10. What were some of the things that happened to the Cambodian people under the Khmer Rouge?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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. What was the lunch truck?

2. Describe the various things Sarun, Mother, Nea and Dara did to build a shelter.

3. Describe what Dara saw when she went with Grandpa Kem and Sarun to get the rice.

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

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