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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dara have to do on the afternoon of the second day?

2. What does Dara see in the fading sunlight on her way back to the campsite?

3. Who tends to Jantu when she is brought back to the base camp wounded?

4. What was the name of the Vietnamese-backed government?

5. Who helps Dara get a job in the camp kitchen?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 18 what does Nea reveal to Dara about the marbles?

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

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

5. What does Chnay tell Dara when she accuses him of breaking the clay dolls?

6. Who do they meet in the hospital when they find Jantu and her baby brother?

7. What happens when Dara asks Sarun to get the pass?

8. What does Dara find when she returns to Nong Chan?

9. What tragic event happens in the forest after the sun has gone down when Dara, Nea, Jantu and Baby are returning to the base camp?

10. What does Jantu request that Dara do at the end of Chapter 16?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. What huge undertaking did Nea and Dara do without telling Sarun?

2. How did Dara get Sarun to ask for the special pass to Khao I Dang?

3. Why couldn't Sarun go along with Nea and Dara to the hospital? What did that foreshadow?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1. Describe the discussion Dara , Sarun and Nea had about the special pass Dara had to have to go to the hospital to get Jantu and Baby. What did Sarun say was preventing him from getting the pass right away?

What was going to take place that also prevented him from going?

2. When Dara said they should go and get Jantu the next day, what did Sarun reply? What were his excuses not to go right away?

3. Instead of planting rice what are Sarun's concerns and interests now?

4. Choose two of the above to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1. Describe what happened when the girls heard shots ring out. What did Jantu do?

2. Describe Jantu's wound.

3. How did Mother tend to Jantu when they brought her back to the base camp?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

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