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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the old man who is Arn's first music teacher?
(a) The Khmer Rouge soldiers kill him and bury him in the mango grove once he is finished teaching Arn the required songs.
(b) He escapes into the jungle in the middle of the night.
(c) He retires from teaching and is allowed to go back to his family in a nearby camp.
(d) He dies of exhaustion from the effort needed to help Arn learn the intricacies of his instrument.

2. After asking Sombo many times why he is permissive with Arn and overlooks his breaking of the rules, Sombo reveals the reason. What does he say is the reason?
(a) He says that he was an orphan who was forced to steal in order to survive as well.
(b) He says that he hates what the Khmer Rouge make him do to punish children who break the rules, so he tries not to turn them in if he can help it.
(c) He says that he knew Arn's father before he was killed and that he feels a responsibility to take care of Arn.
(d) He says that he has a special affinity for Arn because of his musical talent.

3. When some new children arrive at the camp and one of them refuses to cut her hair, how is she punished?
(a) She is denied any food besides grass for weeks.
(b) She is put inside a drum on the temple steps as they beat it and light a fire under it.
(c) She is required to sleep in the manure pile for three nights.
(d) She is wrapped in canvas and tossed high into the air for hours.

4. The boy who runs away from camp and escapes amidst a flurry of gunfire by the Khmer Rouge is a former boyfriend of which of Arn's siblings?
(a) Jorami.
(b) Munny.
(c) Sophea.
(d) Mali.

5. What new job does the child leader give the Little Fish so that they can prove their loyalty to Angka?
(a) They must cook all of the food for every soldier in the camp for one week without eating anything themselves.
(b) They must leap from the trenches they have dug and draw enemy fire.
(c) They must fetch the water for every soldier in the camp for one week without drinking any of it themselves.
(d) They must climb onto the tanks of the Vietnamese army and drop grenades inside.

Short Answer Questions

1. When another child captive tells on Arn for lying to increase his number of work breaks, what do the Khmer Rouge soldiers impose as Arn's punishment?

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

3. What happens to cause Arn to say that now "even the earth is our enemy" (126)?

4. Where do Arn and Munny go after the American movie to play a pretend game of war?

5. When a new letter carrier arrives to bring news to the camp, what news does he bring to Arn?

(see the answer key)

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