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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 plea does Dara make to find her mother?

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

3. How often does Mother visit Dara after they return home?

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

5. How many women were busy pounding rice?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the morning they leave for home.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Describe the first night at Nong Chan. What made Dara feel she had come home?

2. Describe Jantu and Dara's and her encounter at the well. What did they talk about?

3. Describe Jantu's baby brother. What did they call him and what was his real name?

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. 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?

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