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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 happened to the author on her first day at the border?

2. How many Cambodian men, women and children were killed under the Khmer Rouge dictatorship?

3. How old is Dara in Chapter 3?

4. What does Jantu do when she wants absolute silence?

5. What caused open conflict to break out in Cambodia in the 1970s

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What team does Sarun join and why?

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

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

6. What does Jantu make?

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

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

9. What is the lunch truck?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Describe the person in Nong Chan who first talked to Dara's family . What was she doing? What did she say? What did she look like and how old was she?

2. How did the girl handle the awkward situation of Dara's mother being to proud to accept the rice she offered? What was the outcome?

3. What did Nea suggest that she and Dara do while the rice was cooking? Where did they go? What did they see there?

4. Write on two of the three topics.

Essay Topic 2

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.

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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