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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. How did the author serve the refugees in Thailand?

2. What was Dara's village like when she was two- or three-years-old?

3. Why do the Communists kill Dara's father?

4. Who does Dara unintentionally knock down in the thronging crowd of refugees?

5. What color were the Vietnamese uniforms?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is left of Nea's family?

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

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

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

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

9. What is the lunch truck?

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. Describe what happened when the girls heard shots ring out. What did Jantu do?

2. Describe Jantu's wound.

3. How did Mother tend to Jantu when they brought her back to the base camp?

4. Choose two of the 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. What did Dara's family talk about around the campfire after they had been re-united at the base camp? Mention some of the comments of the people there.

2. What did Nea say about the magic marble?

3. How had Sarun changed since he arrived at the base camp?

4.Choose two of the topics to write on.

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