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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 makes Sarun change his mind and go ask for the pass?

2. What could Dara see behind the grove of jacaranda trees over the thatched roof of the kitchen.

3. What does Dara's mother smell like when she holds Dara in her arms?

4. How does Sarun wake up Baby after his return to the campsite?

5. When does Chnay show up for food on the first day Dara works in the kitchen?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Dara and Sarun when they return to Siem Reap?

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

4. 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?

5. Describe the morning they leave for home.

6. What does Dara do after Jantu is brought back to the base camp to help her?

7. What does Jantu request that Dara do at the end of Chapter 16?

8. Where do they sleep the first night in the forest?

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

10. Describe Jantu's cremation.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

1. Describe what Nea and Dara saw of Thailand on their journey to the hospital.

2. Describe the Khao I Dang camp. How was it different from Nong Chan?

3. Describe the hospital at Khao I Dang.

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

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