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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 Dara staring at when Jantu pulls her away?

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

3. In what year did the Khmer Rouge declare victory in Cambodia?

4. When Dara arrives at the Tamarind tree how many people are already lying under it?

5. How does Jantu comfort Dara at the end of Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 happened when Dara and Jantu and her baby brother went to investigate the abandoned lunch truck on their flight from the border?

2. What happened when Dara left Jantu and Baby at the food truck to go and get help? Who helped her?

3. What did the red-bearded red cross man do to help Baby? What did he say was wrong with Baby? What did he do with Jantu and Baby? What happened to Dara?

4. Choose two of the topics to write about.

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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