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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 last member of the family to agree to go with the caravan before Sarun agreed to go?

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

3. Where do Dara and Chnay sleep that first night in the beginning of Chapter 11?

4. Where is most of the fighting taking place?

5. Where was the magic--in Jantu's marble or in Dara's marble?

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

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

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

5. How does Dara prove her courage in Chapter 17?

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

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

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

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

10. Describe the morning they leave for home.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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