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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 Nea say as she sobs after seeing Jantu is dead?

2. Where is most of the fighting taking place?

3. What are the sexes of Nea's and Sarun's children?

4. What is the weather like on the day Dara and Nea start their journey to Khao I Dang?

5. Who helps Dara get a job in the camp kitchen?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Who was Chnay? Describe him.

2. Describe the first appearance of the magic marble. How did it become magic? What was Dara's first response to it? How did she feel about it at the end of Chapter 5?

3. What did Jantu make by the stone pillar? How were the things she made significant to hers and Dara's future?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1. Describe what happened when the girls heard shots ring out. What did Jantu do?

2. Describe Jantu's wound.

3. How did Mother tend to Jantu when they brought her back to 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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