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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nea ask Dara to do at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Help carry water back from the well.
(b) Help wash the sarongs.
(c) Help cook breakfast.
(d) Help take care of baby.

2. What makes Dara happy when she thinks of her father?
(a) He would dance with her.
(b) He would tell her stories at bedtime.
(c) He'd take her in his lap and cover her ears during a storm.
(d) He would sing to her at night.

3. What is Sarun's reaction when Dara and Nea show him the the oxcarts fully packed and ready to go?
(a) He is ashamed.
(b) He is proud of Dara and Nea.
(c) He is overjoyed.
(d) He is surprised and angry.

4. What does Sarun want to do in the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Join the army and fight for Cambodia.
(b) Settle in Thailand.
(c) Gather supplies and go home to plant before the monsoons.
(d) Emigrate to the United States

5. Who goes to the flag-raising to see Sarun?
(a) Nea and Dara.
(b) Nea, Mother and Grandpa Kem.
(c) Nea and Mother.
(d) Nea, Mother, Dara and Chnay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else happened to Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge regime?

2. How old is Jantu in Chapter 3?

3. During the last two hundred years whose colonialism had Cambodia survived?

4. What does Jantu compare war to?

5. What does Dara find when she reaches the stone pillar?

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