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

2. Where is most of the fighting taking place?

3. Where had Nea and Dara parked the oxcarts?

4. How many women were busy pounding rice?

5. What does Dara's mother smell like when she holds Dara in her arms?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe Jantu's cremation.

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

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

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

10. What happens at the end of the fourth day?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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. What happened when Dara and Jantu and her baby brother went to investigate the abandoned lunch truck on their flight from the border?

2. What happened when Dara left Jantu and Baby at the food truck to go and get help? Who helped her?

3. What did the red-bearded red cross man do to help Baby? What did he say was wrong with Baby? What did he do with Jantu and Baby? What happened to Dara?

4. Choose two of the topics to write about.

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