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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. Who is the last member of the family to agree to go with the caravan before Sarun agreed to go?

2. Where does Dara hear reports of a peace plan?

3. What is in the middle of the clearing in the forest?

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

5. What was the name of the Vietnamese-backed government?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the chores Dara is ordered to do by the bad-tempered cook in the kitchen the first day?

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

4. Why did Sarun and his family leave the campsite at Nong Chan?

5. Who do they meet in the hospital when they find Jantu and her baby brother?

6. How is Dara reunited with her family at the end of Chapter 12?

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

8. Where does the cook take Dara on the second afternoon and what does she have to do?

9. What happens at the end of the fourth day?

10. Describe the morning they leave for home.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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. What did Dara's mother do before traveling to the refugee camp? Why?

2. Why did Sarun's helping a man get his cart out of a deep rut it had slipped into mark a change in Dara's family's attitude? What did Sarun learn from the farmer who drove the cart?

3. What did Dara and her family encounter when they entered Nong Chan?

4. Write on two of the three topics.

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