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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 and 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dara's mother smell like when she holds Dara in her arms?
(a) Rice and stew.
(b) Wet earth after a rainstorm.
(c) Bamboo.
(d) Sweet flowers that used to grow in Dara's village.

2. How did the author serve the refugees in Thailand?
(a) She told stories to the children.
(b) She administered first aid.
(c) She helped set up supplementary feeding programs.
(d) She taught the children.

3. What does Dara do after lunch on the first day in the kitchen?
(a) Peels a huge basket of yellow squash for a stew.
(b) Peels potatoes.
(c) Peels a huge basket of garlic.
(d) Chops huge piles of herbs.

4. Where do Chnay and Dara pause after going down a path veering off from the square farther into the camp?
(a) At a stream where they bathed their feet.
(b) At a tamarind tree when they stop to rest.
(c) At a narrow wooden bridge spanning a deep trench.
(d) At a large wooden shelter that smelled of food.

5. What happened when Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia?
(a) Cambodians suffered even more hardship.
(b) Cambodians were able to flee their country.
(c) Cambodians gave up all hope.
(d) Cambodians began to back the Khmer Rouge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author of the book do when she arrived in Thailand?

2. Who is Chnay?

3. What sound does Dara hear in the beginning of Chapter 1?

4. What is Baby's real name?

5. When Dara asks Chnay who broke the clay dolls what does he say?

(see the answer key)

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