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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. When Dara asks Chnay in what direction her family went, what does he answer?

2. What plea does Dara make to find her mother?

3. Who goes to the flag-raising to see Sarun?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dara find when she returns to Nong Chan?

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

3. Describe Jantu's cremation.

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. How is Dara reunited with her family at the end of Chapter 12?

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

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 significance of the cowbell and the direction from which its tinkling was coming.

2. Describe the happier times Dara remembered when she was two or three years old. How was her village and her family at that time?

3. Describe the Communist soldiers who came into Dara's village. How were they dressed? What did they tell the villagers?

4. Write on two of the above topics.

Essay Topic 2

1. What did Dara's mother do before traveling to the refugee camp? Why?

2. Why did Sarun's helping a man get his cart out of a deep rut it had slipped into mark a change in Dara's family's attitude? What did Sarun learn from the farmer who drove the cart?

3. What did Dara and her family encounter when they entered Nong Chan?

4. Write on two of the three topics.

Essay Topic 3

1. Describe the first night at Nong Chan. What made Dara feel she had come home?

2. Describe Jantu and Dara's and her encounter at the well. What did they talk about?

3. Describe Jantu's baby brother. What did they call him and what was his real name?

4. Write on two of the three topics.

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