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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. Where is Jantu's wound located on her body?

2. What does Dara protest about to the cook on the second afternoon in Chapter 12?

3. What is Jantu's second request of Dara after her baby brother is in the hammock with her?

4. How far away is the base camp where Dara wants to search for her family?

5. What are the sexes of Nea's and Sarun's children?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jantu's cremation.

2. Describe the speech Dara and Jantu hear coming over the loudspeakers.

3. What is the legacy of the magic marble and the clay toys Jantu taught Dara to make?

4. When does Chnay finally show up the first day Dara works in the kitchen , what does Dara give him and what does he say?

5. What do Dara and Chnay see when they get part way into the forest on their way to find Sarun and the family?

6. When Nea asks Sarun if he can come with them to find Jantu and her baby brother what does he answer?

7. What do Dara and Nea do after they finish loading the ox carts for the trip home?

8. How does Dara's mother tend to Jantu after she'd brought back to the base camp in Chapter 16?

9. What tragic event happens in the forest after the sun has gone down when Dara, Nea, Jantu and Baby are returning to the base camp?

10. What does Chnay give Dara and why won't he come with them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

1. Describe the person in Nong Chan who first talked to Dara's family . What was she doing? What did she say? What did she look like and how old was she?

2. How did the girl handle the awkward situation of Dara's mother being to proud to accept the rice she offered? What was the outcome?

3. What did Nea suggest that she and Dara do while the rice was cooking? Where did they go? What did they see there?

4. Write on two of the three topics.

Essay Topic 3

1. What did Duoic learn from Jantu?

2. Why was it important which fork in the path the girls took on their way back to the base camp? What had Sarun warned?. Who decided which way to go? Which way was it, right or left?

3. What happened when shots rang out? Whose voice did they hear?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

(see the answer keys)

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