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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 does Nea ask Dara to do at the beginning of Chapter 3?

2. What is Dara staring at when Jantu pulls her away?

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

4. What did the ruler who had ruled Cambodia when Dara was two- or three-years-old look like?

5. How many years did Cambodia's history date back to in the Preface?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when Jantu and Dara see some food trucks?

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

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

5. Who is Jantu?

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

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

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

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

10. Who is hurt during the bombing of the trucks and what is done about it?

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. 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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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