Never Fall Down Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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 C

Patricia McCormick
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Arn and his siblings live with their aunt?
(a) Because their mother was overcome with grief after their father died and said she had to leave the family.
(b) Because their mother is dead.
(c) Because after their father's death, their mother had to go far away to find work.
(d) Because their aunt is rich and can take better care of a large family than their mother can.

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

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

4. How do Arn and his little brother Munny get in to see the American movie?
(a) They borrow money from their older sister, Jorami.
(b) They beg for money outside the theater.
(c) They hide behind the skirts of a large paying customer.
(d) They sneak in through the back door exit.

5. Why do Arn's sister and aunt break down crying when Arn gives them a treat?
(a) They are worried that he steals to get money.
(b) They don't like the treat he gives them.
(c) They feel sorry for him that he has to use his earnings to provide for his family.
(d) They wish he had gotten enough to give every member of the family a treat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it about Arn that makes the soldier let him go without even a warning when he is caught sneaking to Mek's tent in the night?

2. How does Arn find out unequivocally that the government soldiers who answered the Khmer Rouge's call to go to the airport were subsequently murdered?

3. What is the stringed instrument called that Arn learns to play in the band?

4. After the children in the band have had no rice for many days, the Khmer Rouge tell them they are getting a special dinner of banana peels, rice husks, and rotten pieces of food. Arn knows that this is usually the food given to which kind of farm animal?

5. What happens to the old man who is Arn's first music teacher?

(see the answer key)

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