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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. Where does the cook take Dara on the next day in Chapter 12?

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

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

4. When Nea and Dara ask Sarun to get the pass to Khao I Dang from his commanding officer what does he say?

5. In what kind of tree was the skylark perched when Dara heard it sing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the Khao I Dang refugee camp.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1.Describe the encounter between Dara and Chnay when Dara returned to the stone pillar in her search for her family. What did Chnay tell Dara about her family? Where did they go? Why shouldn't she blame him for the destruction of the clay dolls?

2. What was going on in the clearing in the forest which was on the way to the base camp where Dara and Chnay were going to look for Dara's family?

3. Describe Chnay's and Dara's adventure in the base camp kitchen. Whom did they encounter? What was the outcome? What had lured them there?

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

.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?

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