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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) His fame as a khim player.
(b) His smile.
(c) His decision to stand up to the soldier and not allow himself to be controlled.
(d) His kind words about the soldier's sister.

3. Who nurses Arn enough to bring him back to consciousness once he reaches Thailand?
(a) Arn's three older sisters.
(b) Siv, Kha, and Mek.
(c) Three boys from Little Fish with Big Sting.
(d) A group of three Thai girls.

4. What happens the first time Arn shoots his gun?
(a) He accidentally shoots Kha, but it is only a superficial wound.
(b) He is knocked off his feet by the force of the shot.
(c) He shoots a Vietnamese soldier hiding among the trees.
(d) He has a violent flashback of the boy in his village being hit with the butt of a rifle and killed.

5. What details does the author include to let the reader know that the kitchen girl's sexual molestation of Arn happens without his consent?
(a) The kitchen girl's threats to kill his family if he tells anyone and Arn's decision to turn the kitchen girl in for a transgression she didn't commit.
(b) The kitchen girl's announcement that she can kill Arn anytime she wants to and Arn's comment that the food she gives him afterward tastes like dust.
(c) Arn's secret plot to kill the kitchen girl before he escapes and the way in which he pretends to stab her when she turns her back.
(d) Arn's tears of frustration after each session and his anger when he is telling Mek about her actions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Koong's function within Sombo's group?

2. When Arn has a touching moment with the baby monkey but then snaps its neck and wonders why he has done this terrible thing, what conclusion does he come to?

3. The morning just before the Khmer Rouge drive through the village making announcements on their bullhorns, what sounds are noticeably absent?

4. What does Arn do with the lump of sugar the kitchen girl gives him after she is done with him?

5. What is the event that first causes Arn to think maybe the Khmer Rouge have evil intentions?

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