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

2. What tragic event happens in the forest on the way back to the base camp?

3. Where do Chnay and Dara pause after going down a path veering off from the square farther into the camp?

4. Who goes to the flag-raising to see Sarun?

5. What do Nea and Dara do after loading the carts?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does Chnay finally show up the first day Dara works in the kitchen , what does Dara give him and what does he say?

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

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

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

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

7. What do Dara and Nea do after they finish loading the ox carts for the trip home?

8. Describe Jantu's cremation.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Describe the discussion Dara , Sarun and Nea had about the special pass Dara had to have to go to the hospital to get Jantu and Baby. What did Sarun say was preventing him from getting the pass right away?

What was going to take place that also prevented him from going?

2. When Dara said they should go and get Jantu the next day, what did Sarun reply? What were his excuses not to go right away?

3. Instead of planting rice what are Sarun's concerns and interests now?

4. Choose two of the above to write on.

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. 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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