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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What color were the Communist soldiers dressed in?
(a) Red.
(b) Khaki.
(c) Black.
(d) Green.

3. What is the name of the folktale Jantu tells Dara about a coward who turns into a hero?
(a) "Kling the Fearful".
(b) "Longlu the Coward".
(c) "Palm the Powerful".
(d) "Khong the Brave".

4. Whose father loved mangoes?
(a) Grandpa Kem's.
(b) Jantu's
(c) Nea's
(d) Dara's.

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

6. What is the name of the refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border?
(a) Nong Chan.
(b) Ning Chang.
(c) Siem Chan.
(d) Lul Chan.

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

8. Where do Jantu and Dara take their food truck food to eat it?
(a) Under the shade of a tamarind tree.
(b) To the stream running through the camp.
(c) Back to their shelter.
(d) Under the shade of an acacia tree.

9. What disturbs the relative peace in the camp?
(a) Sudden food shortage.
(b) An outbreak of a contagious disease.
(c) Families fighting with one another.
(d) Bombs, shelling and soldiers recruiting.

10. What does Jantu tell Dara after all her dolls and toys had been destroyed?
(a) "My heart is broken like the toys."
(b) "Never mind, we can always start something new".
(c) "I'll never make a toy again."
(d) "Life is so hard."

11. What is the name of the woman who wrote this book?
(a) Waeprae Ho.
(b) Minfong Ho.
(c) Leesong Ho.
(d) Fongchu Ho.

12. Who does Dara unintentionally knock down in the thronging crowd of refugees?
(a) Two little girls.
(b) A boy and an old woman.
(c) A young woman and her baby.
(d) A boy and an old man.

13. What is Grandpa Kem's team told to do after they register at the camp headquarters?
(a) Return the next day.
(b) Return in three days.
(c) Return in two days.
(d) Wait to be notified at their shelter.

14. What persuades the family to start packing?
(a) They want to go home before the monsoons.
(b) They want to go to a different refugee camp.
(c) Bombs are dropping at the border.
(d) They have enough supplies and tools.

15. What does Dara lose as they flee from the bombing?
(a) Her apron.
(b) Her kerchief.
(c) Her sandals.
(d) Her bracelet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nea ask Dara to do at the beginning of Chapter 3?

2. How many men jump out of the ambulance when it arrives?

3. What was Dara's village like when she was two- or three-years-old?

4. What is Jantu's personality like?

5. How did the author serve the refugees in Thailand?

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