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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. With whom does Jantu compare the leaders of Cambodia in her teaching story?

2. From what direction was the sound that Dara and Sarun heard coming?

3. What is Jantu's personality like?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the lunch truck?

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

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

5. What injury does Baby have and what is done about it?

6. What is left of Nea's family?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. What huge undertaking did Nea and Dara do without telling Sarun?

2. How did Dara get Sarun to ask for the special pass to Khao I Dang?

3. Why couldn't Sarun go along with Nea and Dara to the hospital? What did that foreshadow?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1. What did Dara's mother do before traveling to the refugee camp? Why?

2. Why did Sarun's helping a man get his cart out of a deep rut it had slipped into mark a change in Dara's family's attitude? What did Sarun learn from the farmer who drove the cart?

3. What did Dara and her family encounter when they entered Nong Chan?

4. Write on two of the three topics.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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