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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 and 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dara's mother do before departing for the refugee camp?
(a) She gathers her family around her, telling them she loved them.
(b) She packs the family's clothes.
(c) She packs provisions of rice.
(d) She digs up her silver Buddha figure.

2. What else happened to Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge regime?
(a) They were shut off from the rest of the world.
(b) They didn't have enough food.
(c) They weren't allowed to pray to Buddha.
(d) Their schools were shut down.

3. What color were the Vietnamese uniforms?
(a) Green.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown.
(d) Blue.

4. What marked the beginning of Cambodia's rich history?
(a) The festival of the lights.
(b) The building of the Buddhist temple complex of Angkor.
(c) .The building of the first Cambodian pagoda.
(d) The festival of the rice harvest.

5. How many Cambodian men, women and children were killed under the Khmer Rouge dictatorship?
(a) More than 80 thousand.
(b) More than a million and a half.
(c) More than 70 thousand.
(d) More than one million.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what direction was the sound that Dara and Sarun heard coming?

2. Who had ruled Cambodia when Dara was two- or three-years-old?

3. What color were the Communist soldiers dressed in?

4. What caused open conflict to break out in Cambodia in the 1970s

5. What happened in the same year the Khmer Rouge declared victory in Cambodia?

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