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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 color are the Thai soldiers' uniforms?

2. What does Jantu do to the clay marble to make it magic?

3. What is the name of Dara's village?

4. During the last two hundred years whose colonialism had Cambodia survived?

5. What does Jantu make out of wild vines?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What suddenly disturbs the relative peace of the camp?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1.Describe the encounter between Dara and Chnay when Dara returned to the stone pillar in her search for her family. What did Chnay tell Dara about her family? Where did they go? Why shouldn't she blame him for the destruction of the clay dolls?

2. What was going on in the clearing in the forest which was on the way to the base camp where Dara and Chnay were going to look for Dara's family?

3. Describe Chnay's and Dara's adventure in the base camp kitchen. Whom did they encounter? What was the outcome? What had lured them there?

4. Choose two of the above 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 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.

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