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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 is Baby's real name?

2. How old is Jantu in Chapter 3?

3. What happened to the author on her first day at the border?

4. What does Jantu whittle out of a knobby branch?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happens to Dara when she runs for help for Baby?

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

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

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

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. Describe the discussion Dara , Sarun and Nea had about the special pass Dara had to have to go to the hospital to get Jantu and Baby. What did Sarun say was preventing him from getting the pass right away?

What was going to take place that also prevented him from going?

2. When Dara said they should go and get Jantu the next day, what did Sarun reply? What were his excuses not to go right away?

3. Instead of planting rice what are Sarun's concerns and interests now?

4. Choose two of the above to write on.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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