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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 Sarun say is the big chance he now has?

2. To whom does Dara give some of her rice?

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

4. How is Khao I Dang different from Nong Chan?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Dara find when she returns to Nong Chan?

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

9. Describe the Khao I Dang refugee camp.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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