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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jantu ask Dara to sing to her and her baby brother?
(a) A song about young Cambodian lovers.
(b) A song about fairies and elves.
(c) A song about home.
(d) A song about women winnowing rice.

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

3. The words spoken over the loudspeaker during the demonstration are likened to what?
(a) Words of a hypnotist to his patient.
(b) Cheers during a sports game.
(c) Paper streamers fluttering in the air.
(d) Bullets flying through the air.

4. What delicious food does Dara smell in the camp?
(a) Roast port.
(b) Roast chicken.
(c) Roast beef.
(d) Roast lamb.

5. Who helps Dara get a job in the camp kitchen?
(a) Kung Silor.
(b) A Khmer Serei soldier.
(c) The kitchen cook.
(d) Chnay.

6. What does Jantu first ask Dara to do?
(a) Make a new magic marble.
(b) Bring her some rice.
(c) Put her baby brother in the hammock.
(d) Promise to take her to the hospital the next day.

7. What does Dara have to do on the afternoon of the second day?
(a) Chop vegetables.
(b) Cook beans.
(c) Winnow rice.
(d) Cook rice.

8. How old is Duoic?
(a) Eight or nine.
(b) Fifteen or sixteen.
(c) Thirteen or fourteen.
(d) Ten or eleven.

9. What are the sexes of Nea's and Sarun's children?
(a) Two girls and a boy.
(b) Three girls.
(c) Two boys and a girl.
(d) Three boys.

10. Where had Nea and Dara parked the oxcarts?
(a) By a large tamarind tree.
(b) Next to the parade ground.
(c) In a banana grove.
(d) In the forest near the base camp.

11. What does Dara do the next morning in the kitchen?
(a) Starts the lunch.
(b) Polishes silverware.
(c) Peels potatoes.
(d) Scrubs very dirty pots.

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

13. What time is it when they finally arrive at the Khao I Dang refugee camp?
(a) High noon.
(b) 2 pm.
(c) 3 pm.
(d) 1 pm.

14. When Dara asks Chnay who broke the clay dolls what does he say?
(a) That Sarun did it accidentally.
(b) That one of the refugees broke them.
(c) That several Thai soldiers broke them/
(d) That he broke them out of spite.

15. What does Dara see when she wakes up the morning they are to leave for Siem Reap?
(a) Her family already eating breakfast.
(b) Nea rocking Baby.
(c) A full moon and a bright morning star.
(d) The oxen pawing the earth eager to go.

Short Answer Questions

1. How will Nea and Dara get to the refugee camp where Jantu and Baby are in the hospital?

2. Where was the magic--in Jantu's marble or in Dara's marble?

3. Why does Dara call to Mother and Nea in alarm in the morning?

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

5. Where does Dara hear reports of a peace plan?

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