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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the five-year-old boy that reminds Arn of his little brother sneaks out night after night, returning only in the morning, what does Arn eventually find out he is doing?
(a) He is eating dead people's flesh in the mango grove.
(b) He is climbing trees to eat the fruit.
(c) He is attacking the Khmer Rouge soldiers from the jungle.
(d) He is stealing rice from the kitchen.

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

3. When the trucks of Khmer Rouge soldiers first arrive, what does the radio tell the Cambodian people to do?
(a) To learn how to use guns so that they may join the throng of soldiers.
(b) To run away as fast as they can and take nothing with them.
(c) To do nothing and say nothing when the soldiers speak to them.
(d) To give the soldiers whatever they can and show that they support them.

4. What is the news being reported on the radio when Sombo quickly turns it off to prevent Arn from hearing?
(a) The rice fields in Cambodia are full of the joyful voices of peasants working in the fields.
(b) Everyone in Cambodia is fleeing to Thailand to escape the Khmer Rouge.
(c) The Khmer Rouge have taken over every major city and every small village in Cambodia.
(d) Vietnamese soldiers are coming across the border to take over Cambodia by fighting the Khmer Rouge.

5. Why does Arn decide he wants to become good at volleyball once he sees this is the most popular game at the Children's Center?
(a) Because he used to play it back in his home village and he feels nostalgic about it.
(b) Because he wants to spend his time doing something productive so that he can forget about missing his family.
(c) Because he sees that whoever is good at the game becomes important in the eyes of the other kids.
(d) Because he thinks he'll be good at it since during battles he's had to watch the sky for flying artillery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens the first time Arn plays volleyball?

2. What causes Arn's thought that maybe it would be okay if the Vietnamese never come to rescue him and the other captives?

3. Once Sombo's group dwindles to a number of only seven kids, plus Sombo and Koong, they become so tired that they drop most of what they have been carrying. What are the two things they continue to carry?

4. 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?

5. The first person Arn sees in over a year who is not wearing a black uniform is the new leader who arrives at the camp. How does Arn describe his appearance?

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