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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Nea who welcomed Dara's family to the refugee camp?
(a) Eighteen or nineteen.
(b) seventeen.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Sixteen.

2. What is the name of the lake by Dara's old village?
(a) Waeprae lake.
(b) Tonle Sap lake.
(c) Thinlong lake.
(d) Tonse Hon lake.

3. How many years did Cambodia's history date back to in the Preface?
(a) Over one thousand years.
(b) Over three thousand years.
(c) Over two thousand years.
(d) Over 700 years.

4. What does Jantu make out of banana leaves?
(a) Tiny hammocks for her clay village.
(b) Two small boats.
(c) A bracelet for Dara and one for herself.
(d) A plump goldfish or angular frogs.

5. Why do the Communists kill Dara's father?
(a) He knew how to read and write and taught the children.
(b) He taunted the Communists.
(c) He was sick.
(d) To put fear into the villagers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the author travel to Thailand?

2. In what year did the Khmer Rouge declare victory in Cambodia?

3. Who lets big, red stinging ants crawl on his arm?

4. What does the man in the folktale brag he killed?

5. What does Jantu do to the clay marble to make it magic?

(see the answer key)

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