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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 years did Cambodia's history date back to in the Preface?

2. What do the Khmer Rouge soldiers tell them over and over?

3. What happened when Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia?

4. What is the name of the woman who wrote this book?

5. What is the mobile Jantu makes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Jantu?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Jantu make?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

.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 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 the significance of the cowbell and the direction from which its tinkling was coming.

2. Describe the happier times Dara remembered when she was two or three years old. How was her village and her family at that time?

3. Describe the Communist soldiers who came into Dara's village. How were they dressed? What did they tell the villagers?

4. Write on two of the above topics.

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