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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 are the girls taking turns doing when they are walking in the forest toward the base camp?

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

3. What does Dara see when she wakes up the morning they are to leave for Siem Reap?

4. The words spoken over the loudspeaker during the demonstration are likened to what?

5. What does Sarun now think is more important than planting rice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dara do after Jantu is brought back to the base camp to help her?

2. Describe Jantu's cremation.

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

4. What happens to Dara and Sarun when they return to Siem Reap?

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

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

7. What does Dara do in Chapter 13 to prepare for the trip home to Siem Reap?

8. Why did Sarun and his family leave the campsite at Nong Chan?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. What was the lunch truck?

2. Describe the various things Sarun, Mother, Nea and Dara did to build a shelter.

3. Describe what Dara saw when she went with Grandpa Kem and Sarun to get the rice.

4. Choose two of the above topics to write about.

Essay Topic 2

1. What did Dara's mother do before traveling to the refugee camp? Why?

2. Why did Sarun's helping a man get his cart out of a deep rut it had slipped into mark a change in Dara's family's attitude? What did Sarun learn from the farmer who drove the cart?

3. What did Dara and her family encounter when they entered Nong Chan?

4. Write on two of the three topics.

Essay Topic 3

1. What was the story of "Khong the Brave" ? Tell the story.

2. What is the story of the famiy of deaf men that Jantu told to Dara? How does it relate to the war in Cambodia?

3. What did Jantu make with her hands? What materials did she use?

4. Choose two of the above topics to write on.

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