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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 happened to the author on her first day at the border?
(a) A little girl shared her rice with her.
(b) A little child hugged her.
(c) A mother thanked her for coming.
(d) A little child gave her a ball of mud.

2. What do the Khmer Rouge soldiers tell them over and over?
(a) They loved Cambodians.
(b) Prosperous times were coming.
(c) Cambodians were inferior people.
(d) Cambodia was a family, the Communist party the parent.

3. During the last two hundred years whose colonialism had Cambodia survived?
(a) British colonialism.
(b) Japanese colonialism.
(c) French colonialism.
(d) Chinese colonialism.

4. Who had ruled Cambodia when Dara was two- or three-years-old?
(a) Prince Soknung.
(b) Prince Songdacha.
(c) Prince Singnang.
(d) Prince Sihanouk.

5. What did the ruler who had ruled Cambodia when Dara was two- or three-years-old look like?
(a) Round-faced and smiling.
(b) Sad and little.
(c) Thin and dark.
(d) Large with a mean face.

Short Answer Questions

1. What river 80 miles upstream from Cambodia did the author stroll along?

2. The author of the book took a leave of absence from what university in order to travel to Thailand?

3. Where do the villagers hide during the bombing?

4. What did the Communist soldiers tell the villagers?

5. What color were the Communist soldiers dressed in?

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