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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 Dara do the next morning in the kitchen?

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

3. How many children do Nea and Sarun have?

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

5. What does Grandpa Kem do when left behind with Jantu, Baby and Dara?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the speech Dara and Jantu hear coming over the loudspeakers.

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

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

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

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. Describe the Khao I Dang refugee camp.

8. Describe the chores Dara is ordered to do by the bad-tempered cook in the kitchen the first day?

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

10. What is the legacy of the magic marble and the clay toys Jantu taught Dara to make?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

.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 2

1. What happened when Dara and Jantu and her baby brother went to investigate the abandoned lunch truck on their flight from the border?

2. What happened when Dara left Jantu and Baby at the food truck to go and get help? Who helped her?

3. What did the red-bearded red cross man do to help Baby? What did he say was wrong with Baby? What did he do with Jantu and Baby? What happened to Dara?

4. Choose two of the topics to write about.

Essay Topic 3

1. Describe what Nea and Dara saw of Thailand on their journey to the hospital.

2. Describe the Khao I Dang camp. How was it different from Nong Chan?

3. Describe the hospital at Khao I Dang.

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

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