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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 Dara do after lunch on the first day in the kitchen?

2. Where had Nea and Dara parked the oxcarts?

3. Who had Chnay made friends with besides some loner boys?

4. What could Dara see behind the grove of jacaranda trees over the thatched roof of the kitchen.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Nea asks Sarun if he can come with them to find Jantu and her baby brother what does he answer?

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

4. Where does the cook take Dara on the second afternoon and what does she have to do?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. What was the lunch truck?

2. Describe the various things Sarun, Mother, Nea and Dara did to build a shelter.

3. Describe what Dara saw when she went with Grandpa Kem and Sarun to get the rice.

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

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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