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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 high are the piles of stacked rice?

2. Where is the hospital where they take Jantu and Baby to located?

3. What color were the Communist soldiers dressed in?

4. What makes Dara happy when she thinks of her father?

5. What happens when Dara and Jantu investigate a food truck they see along the way?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. The author of this book left what university in what year to return to Thailand and help the refugees?

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

4. What is the lunch truck?

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

6. What are the basic rations refugee families receive and what do they do when they first arrive at camp?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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