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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-18 & Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 knew Arn's father before he was killed and that he feels a responsibility to take care of Arn.
(b) He says that he was an orphan who was forced to steal in order to survive as well.
(c) He says that he has a special affinity for Arn because of his musical talent.
(d) 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.

2. After Arns separates from the other boys, he wants to get to Thailand. What is the only landmark he knows about that will signal him he's about to get to Thailand?
(a) He knows he will have to climb the tallest mountain of three peaks on the horizon.
(b) He knows he will have to wade through a swamp.
(c) He knows he will have to cross a river.
(d) He knows he will have to cross a series of three bridges.

3. Who tells Arn's aunt about Arn and Munny seeing the American movie?
(a) Sophea.
(b) Sojeat.
(c) Mali.
(d) Munny.

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

5. When Arn is told by a Khmer Rouge soldier that he has a new job in addition to his job as a musician in the band, what does that new job turn out to be?
(a) He has to cook for all of the children in the camp.
(b) He has to take away the material belongings from the captives' tents and give them to the soldiers.
(c) He has to push the dead and dying into the mass grave in the mango grove.
(d) He has to clean the area where the whole camp relieves themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mr. Pond end up taking Sojeat, Ravi, and Arn when he asks them to climb in the trunk of his car?

2. Why does Arn at first hesitate to volunteer when a high-ranking Khmer Rouge soldier asks who wants to play music in a band within the camp?

3. 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?

4. What happens the first time Arn and and another Little Fish go to drop grenades into the tanks of the Vietnamese soldiers?

5. Thinking he hears gunfire one night at the hospital, Arn awakes with a start and reaches for his gun. What is actually making the sound that he mistakes for gunfire?

(see the answer key)

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