Never Fall Down Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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 | Eight Week Quiz B

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 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon realizing that Arn is teasing him by putting a stone on his chest instead of the customary lump of sugar, Mek tells Arn that he has a treat for him. What is the treat?
(a) He shows Arn a firefly he has trapped in a bottle.
(b) He tells Arn a story about how his children used to tease him, too.
(c) He hums an old Cambodian love song to Arn that is now illegal.
(d) He gives Arn a piece of cornbread.

2. What event causes Arn to sneak out and plead with the new music teacher to start exerting effort in his teaching?
(a) Arn has taken a genuine interest in the musical arts and wants to do anything he can to fuel his new passion.
(b) A Khmer Rouge guard asks Arn how the band is progressing and whether the new music teacher has a good or a bad character.
(c) Arn realizes that though he can play and teach all of the instruments to the other children, he wants a father figure to be their leader.
(d) Arn knows that the new music teacher is a friend of his mother's and so he wants to preserve the teacher's life.

3. What event causes Arn to wonder if he has become a monster just like the Khmer Rouge soldiers?
(a) He feels happiness at hearing that his rich neighbors have all been killed for their elitist ways.
(b) He feels happiness at seeing Kha die, since now he is at least out of his misery.
(c) He feels happiness at the sight of the boy who previously got him into trouble being beaten by a soldier for being lazy.
(d) He feels happiness at hearing that one soldier has been murdered for speaking roughly to another soldier.

4. When the Khmer Rouge evacuate all of the cities in order to force everyone into agricultural work, how many days do they tell the villagers they will be gone?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 14 days.
(c) 10 days.
(d) 5 days.

5. While the captives subsist on tiny amounts of rice and garbage, what do the Khmer Rouge eat?
(a) Chicken, fish, and lemongrass.
(b) Caviar, foie gras, and steak.
(c) Sardines, mussels, and clams.
(d) Grass, leaves, and clay.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What reason does Arn give for not eating the human liver that the Khmer Rouge soldier forces him to cook?

3. When Chantou gets mad that Arn is working as a vendor, what is NOT something she says he should be doing instead?

4. What sport do the rich kids play in the yard of their school in the first part of the book?

5. When some new children arrive at the camp and one of them refuses to cut her hair, how is she punished?

(see the answer key)

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