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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 does Dara find when she reaches the stone pillar?

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

3. Before Sarun goes to the flag-raising what does Jantu ask him to do?

4. What is the weather like on the day Dara and Nea start their journey to Khao I Dang?

5. What is Sarun's reaction when Dara and Nea show him the the oxcarts fully packed and ready to go?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the morning they leave for home.

4. How does Dara prove her courage in Chapter 17?

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

6. Who goes with Sarun to the flag-raising and who stays behind with Jantu and why?

7. What does Chnay tell Dara when she accuses him of breaking the clay dolls?

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

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

10. Describe Dara's interaction with the little monkey chained in the kitchen.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Who was Chnay? Describe him.

2. Describe the first appearance of the magic marble. How did it become magic? What was Dara's first response to it? How did she feel about it at the end of Chapter 5?

3. What did Jantu make by the stone pillar? How were the things she made significant to hers and Dara's future?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

.1. Who went to see Sarun at the military demonstration and who remained at the camp? Why?

2. What were Jantu's comments about the speech that she and Dara heard over the loudspeakers at the base camp? Do you agree with her? Do you think Jantu or Dara was the true heroine of the book?

3. What had happened during the 10 years after Dara and her family and Nea and her family had been at the border? Who had married? How many children?

Essay Topic 3

1. What huge undertaking did Nea and Dara do without telling Sarun?

2. How did Dara get Sarun to ask for the special pass to Khao I Dang?

3. Why couldn't Sarun go along with Nea and Dara to the hospital? What did that foreshadow?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

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