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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far away is the base camp where Dara wants to search for her family?
(a) About three miles.
(b) About five miles.
(c) About two miles.
(d) About four miles.

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

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

4. When does Chnay show up for food on the first day Dara works in the kitchen?
(a) At night when it had started to rain.
(b) When it is pitch-dark and the full moon has risen.
(c) When the sun was just setting.
(d) In the evening when the crescent moon hung in the sky.

5. Why does Dara call to Mother and Nea in alarm in the morning?
(a) Jantu is moaning loudly.
(b) Jantu's cheek feels hot.
(c) Jantu's body feelscold.
(d) Jantu's wound has started bleeding more.

6. In what kind of tree was the skylark perched when Dara heard it sing?
(a) Sandalwood.
(b) Tamarind.
(c) Jacaranda.
(d) Guava.

7. Who tends to Jantu when she is brought back to the base camp wounded?
(a) Dara.
(b) Sarun.
(c) Mother.
(d) Nea.

8. What does Duoic finally do for himself after he had tried to get someone else to do it for him?
(a) Get his water bottle.
(b) Arrange his pillows.
(c) Get a book from under his bed.
(d) Call a nurse.

9. What is Dara doing as she talks with Sarun about enlisting versus going home to plant rice?
(a) Silently praying to Lord Buddha.
(b) Shaping a clay marble.
(c) Shaking with emotion.
(d) Crying.

10. Where was the magic--in Jantu's marble or in Dara's marble?
(a) In Dara's marble.
(b) In Jantu's marble.
(c) In neither, but rather in Jantu and Dara themselves.
(d) In both marbles.

11. When Nea and Dara ask Sarun to get the pass to Khao I Dang from his commanding officer what does he say?
(a) "You go get the pass yourselves."
(b) "I'll do it right away."
(c) "I'm sorry not now, but I'll try tomorrow."
(d) "Impossible, my commanding officer is very busy."

12. What is the leader of the base camp wearing around his neck?
(a) A huge tiger's tooth.
(b) A huge bear's tooth.
(c) A bronze Khmer Serei emblem.
(d) A silver figure of Buddha.

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

14. What do Dara and Chnay see in a clearing in the forest?
(a) A herd of deer.
(b) Soldiers marching and singing.
(c) Refugee families around campfires.
(d) Young women and men dancing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Chnay and Dara pause after going down a path veering off from the square farther into the camp?

2. What is in the middle of the clearing in the forest?

3. How many tries did Chnay make in order to perfect the wooden cowbell he carved for Dara?

4. What does Sarun say is the big chance he now has?

5. What tragic event happens in the forest on the way back to the base camp?

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