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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the weather like on the day Dara and Nea start their journey to Khao I Dang?
(a) It's pouring rain.
(b) A light rain is falling.
(c) The sun is shining.
(d) It's windy and cold.

2. How does Sarun wake up Baby after his return to the campsite?
(a) He shakes Baby.
(b) He yanks on the hammock rope.
(c) He gives the baby to Nea.
(d) He yells really loud.

3. What character quality do Dara and Sarun discuss as they talk of Sarun's enlisting in the war?
(a) Gentleness.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Courage.
(d) Toughness.

4. What does Dara's mother smell like when she holds Dara in her arms?
(a) Sweet flowers that used to grow in Dara's village.
(b) Rice and stew.
(c) Wet earth after a rainstorm.
(d) Bamboo.

5. What kind of personality does the cook have?
(a) Jolly.
(b) Fatherly.
(c) Mean-tempered.
(d) Sad and introverted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Dara placed over Jantu before she was cremated?

2. When does Chnay show up for food on the first day Dara works in the kitchen?

3. What warning does Sarun give to the girls about their trip to get Jantu and Baby?

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

5. What is Jantu's second request of Dara after her baby brother is in the hammock with her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the cook take Dara on the second afternoon and what does she have to do?

2. Describe the chores Dara is ordered to do by the bad-tempered cook in the kitchen the first day?

3. Describe Jantu's cremation.

4. When does Chnay finally show up the first day Dara works in the kitchen , what does Dara give him and what does he say?

5. When Nea asks Sarun if he can come with them to find Jantu and her baby brother what does he answer?

6. Describe the Khao I Dang refugee camp.

7. Where do they sleep the first night in the forest?

8. Describe Dara's interaction with the little monkey chained in the kitchen.

9. What is the legacy of the magic marble and the clay toys Jantu taught Dara to make?

10. How does Dara prove her courage in Chapter 17?

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