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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. How many children does Dara have?

2. What time is it when they finally arrive at the Khao I Dang refugee camp?

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

4. What kind of moon is rising as Dara tries to find her way back to her family?

5. How does Sarun wake up Baby after his return to the campsite?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dara do in Chapter 13 to prepare for the trip home to Siem Reap?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Chnay tell Dara when she accuses him of breaking the clay dolls?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Describe Dara's job in the kitchen. What was the cook like?

2. Where did the cook take Dara after she had worked in the kitchen a while? What was she told to do there? What dis she disapprove of that the women were doing?

3. How was Dara re-united with her familyl?

4. Choose two of the above 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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