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

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

3. What do Nea and Dara do after loading the carts?

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

5. How many children do Nea and Sarun have?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the speech Dara and Jantu hear coming over the loudspeakers.

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

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. How is Dara reunited with her family at the end of Chapter 12?

6. Describe Jantu's cremation.

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

8. What do Dara and Chnay see when they get part way into the forest on their way to find Sarun and the family?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

1.Describe the encounter between Dara and Chnay when Dara returned to the stone pillar in her search for her family. What did Chnay tell Dara about her family? Where did they go? Why shouldn't she blame him for the destruction of the clay dolls?

2. What was going on in the clearing in the forest which was on the way to the base camp where Dara and Chnay were going to look for Dara's family?

3. Describe Chnay's and Dara's adventure in the base camp kitchen. Whom did they encounter? What was the outcome? What had lured them there?

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

Essay Topic 3

1. What were some of the health problems the children at the hospital suffered from?

2. In which ward did Nea and Dara find Jantu and Baby? Describe the ward.

3. Who was Duoic and what was his story?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

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