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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Dara wished she had been able to give Jantu?
(a) Something she had made.
(b) A book of folktales.
(c) A songbook.
(d) A figure of Lord Buddha.

2. How often does Mother visit Dara after they return home?
(a) Once a month.
(b) Almost every day.
(c) Almost every week.
(d) Almost every other day.

3. Where do Dara and Chnay sleep that first night in the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) In a shelter they shared with a refugee family.
(b) In an abandoned lean-to with torn thatching for a roof.
(c) In a grove of guava trees.
(d) Under a huge Tamarind tree.

4. Where does Mother live after they return home to Siem Reap?
(a) With Grandpa Kem.
(b) With a neighbor.
(c) With Nea and Sarun.
(d) Alone.

5. How many women were busy pounding rice?
(a) Six women working in pairs.
(b) Four women working in pairs.
(c) Eight women working in pairs.
(d) Ten women working in pairs.

6. What do Chnay and Dara do on the first day in the Khmer Serei military camp?
(a) They search for food.
(b) They ask everyone if they have seen Dara's family.
(c) They rest and pray to Lord Buddha for hellp.
(d) Circle outer edges of the camp searching for Dara's familly.

7. How many soldiers marched up to the flag pole and fired their guns?
(a) A dozen.
(b) Ten.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Fourteen.

8. When does Sarun ask his commanding officer for the pass?
(a) The next day, after the flag-raising.
(b) The next week.
(c) That same day.
(d) In two weeks.

9. What does Dara see in the fading sunlight on her way back to the campsite?
(a) Silhouettes of the tall watch towers.
(b) The river.
(c) The huge tamarind tree.
(d) The stone pillar.

10. What does the family talk about first when they are reunited and sit around the campfire?
(a) The coming monsoons.
(b) Sarun's transformation into a soldier.
(c) Going home to their village.
(d) The magic marble.

11. What are the girls taking turns doing when they are walking in the forest toward the base camp?
(a) Feeding Baby.
(b) Singing to Baby.
(c) Rubbing each other's backs.
(d) Holding Baby.

12. What was the name of the Vietnamese-backed government?
(a) The Vietnamese-backed Ho Chi Minh government.
(b) The Vietnamese-backed Heng Samrin government.
(c) The Vietnamese-backed Ling Sao Tao governement,.
(d) The Vietnamese-backed Lao Se Tung government.

13. Before Sarun goes to the flag-raising what does Jantu ask him to do?
(a) Arrange for the Red Cross van to take her to the hospital.
(b) Bring her something to eat.
(c) Extract the bullet.
(d) Move her to the outside hammock.

14. After Nea, Dara and the others have prepared the ox carts for the trip home; in how many days will the caravan to Siem Reap leave?
(a) Eight days.
(b) Five days.
(c) Six days.
(d) Three days.

15. To whom does Dara give some of her rice?
(a) A little lost boy.
(b) A little lost girl.
(c) An old man.
(d) A monkey on a chain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grandpa Kem do when left behind with Jantu, Baby and Dara?

2. What do Dara and Chnay see in a clearing in the forest?

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

4. What does Dara protest about to the cook on the second afternoon in Chapter 12?

5. What could Dara see behind the grove of jacaranda trees over the thatched roof of the kitchen.

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