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

2. What does the cook call Dara on the next day in Chapter 12?

3. What do Chnay and Dara do on the first day in the Khmer Serei military camp?

4. What does Dara have to do on the afternoon of the second day?

5. How many children does Dara have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Dara's mother tend to Jantu after she'd brought back to the base camp in Chapter 16?

8. What happens when Dara asks Sarun to get the pass?

9. What does Dara do in Chapter 13 to prepare for the trip home to Siem Reap?

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

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. Describe the significance of mango trees to Jantu's and Dara's fathers?

2. Why did the Khmer Serei resistance at the border have to recruit more men and how did that affect Dara's family?

3. What did Jantu mean when she told Dara "Things that can break are not worth taking" when they were fleeing the bombs?

4. Choose two of the above topics and write on them.

Essay Topic 3

1. What did Dara's family talk about around the campfire after they had been re-united at the base camp? Mention some of the comments of the people there.

2. What did Nea say about the magic marble?

3. How had Sarun changed since he arrived at the base camp?

4.Choose two of the topics to write on.

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