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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 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 tears of frustration after each session and his anger when he is telling Mek about her actions.
(d) 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.

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?
(a) His friend's high-ranking father was shot.
(b) His little brother sneaks away to the airport and comes back to report to Arn what he's seen.
(c) The Khmer Rouge soldiers drive through town announcing the murders they've committed.
(d) He sees their bodies during the mass exodus from the village.

3. How old is Arn when the novel's narrative first begins?
(a) 11.
(b) 14.
(c) 13.
(d) 9.

4. Where do Arn and Munny go after the American movie to play a pretend game of war?
(a) The mango grove.
(b) The soccer field.
(c) The park.
(d) The town square.

5. Using the method of time measurement that Arn and the other captives must use, eight harvests means he's been held captive for how long?
(a) 2 1/2 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 1 1/2 years.
(d) 3 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the radio makes clear that the Vietnamese soldiers really are coming, chaos erupts and many children run away in the melee. Sombo asks Arn why he doesn't run away to find his family. Why does Arn not run away?

2. Sombo brings his new group to join with another camp composed mainly of true Khmer Rouge kids, not soldiers like Arn who have been held captive and then forced into battle by the Khmer Rouge. What is the main child leader's name within this other group?

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

4. The Khmer Rouge tell the band that they are going on a trip and everyone is expecting to be killed. Instead, what happens?

5. How does Arn describe the monks at the temple school?

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