Never Fall Down Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Patricia McCormick
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 252 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Never Fall Down Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Patricia McCormick
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 252 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The second time Arn joins the volleyball game, he plays skillfully and everyone claps. Why does he do so well at the game this time around?
(a) Because he has asked Sojeat and Ravi ahead of time to set up some good plays for him to build from.
(b) Because he has replaced the regular volleyball with a rubber ball that is easier to maneuver.
(c) Because he has conditioned himself to control his fear of flying objects.
(d) Because he has been practicing all day every day and has even been sneaking out at night to practice.

2. After Arn becomes a sort of personal assistant to the leader with the white shorts, what privilege is he granted?
(a) He gets to run as fast as he wants, a practice normally forbidden so that escapes may be detected.
(b) He gets to go in the leader's room to sleep on a soft feather pillow on the floor.
(c) He gets to sleep in late and eat a breakfast of rice cakes.
(d) He gets to ride the leader's white horse.

3. Besides the fact that Arn was a child soldier and Sojeat and Ravi were not, what other main difference is there between his background and theirs?
(a) Sojeat's and Ravi's families had enough money to send them to school.
(b) Arn's family was religious, while the families of Sojeat and Ravi were not.
(c) Arn's parents both raised him until the Khmer Rouge came, while the parents of Sojeat and Ravi were divorced before then.
(d) Sojeat and Ravi used to look up the Khmer Rouge soldiers, while Arn did everything he could to rebel against them.

4. What happens the first time Arn plays volleyball?
(a) He sprains his ankle diving for the ball.
(b) He tucks into a crouch when the ball falls from the sky toward him.
(c) He runs into another kid, bloodying both of their noses.
(d) He spikes the ball over the net and scores a point for his team.

5. What happens to cause Arn to say that now "even the earth is our enemy" (126)?
(a) Their rice girl steps on a land mine and loses her leg.
(b) The vegetables they plant won't grow.
(c) When they bury their dead, the earth expels their bloated bodies.
(d) Vietnamese soldiers leap out of a ditch to attack their group.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Arn asks a nurse what month and year it is, she replies that it's March 1979. He then figures out he has been away from home for how long in total?

2. What method does Mek, the new music teacher, tell Arn that he uses to survive?

3. Though at first Arn is furious with Mr. Pond for taking chances that lead to him being shot by a Thai guard, Mr. Pond then reveals news that makes Arn ecstatic. What is that news?

4. What details does the author include to let the reader know that the kitchen girl's sexual molestation of Arn happens without his consent?

5. How does Arn cope with his feelings when the Khmer Rouge kitchen girl sexually molests him?

(see the answer key)

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