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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 leader of the Khmer Serei soldiers?

2. What had Dara wished she had been able to give Jantu?

3. What character quality do Dara and Sarun discuss as they talk of Sarun's enlisting in the war?

4. What delicious food does Dara smell in the camp?

5. How many years had passed in the Afterword since the time at the border?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 18 what does Nea reveal to Dara about the marbles?

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

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

6. Describe Jantu's cremation.

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. What did Duoic learn from Jantu?

2. Why was it important which fork in the path the girls took on their way back to the base camp? What had Sarun warned?. Who decided which way to go? Which way was it, right or left?

3. What happened when shots rang out? Whose voice did they hear?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

.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?

Essay Topic 3

1. What was the lunch truck?

2. Describe the various things Sarun, Mother, Nea and Dara did to build a shelter.

3. Describe what Dara saw when she went with Grandpa Kem and Sarun to get the rice.

4. Choose two of the above topics to write about.

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