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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. Why does Dara call to Mother and Nea in alarm in the morning?

2. What do Dara and Chnay see in a clearing in the forest?

3. What does Jantu first ask Dara to do?

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

5. The words spoken over the loudspeaker during the demonstration are likened to what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the morning they leave for home.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. What were some of the health problems the children at the hospital suffered from?

2. In which ward did Nea and Dara find Jantu and Baby? Describe the ward.

3. Who was Duoic and what was his story?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

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 person in Nong Chan who first talked to Dara's family . What was she doing? What did she say? What did she look like and how old was she?

2. How did the girl handle the awkward situation of Dara's mother being to proud to accept the rice she offered? What was the outcome?

3. What did Nea suggest that she and Dara do while the rice was cooking? Where did they go? What did they see there?

4. Write on two of the three topics.

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