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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At one point, Arn becomes so hungry and thirsty and eats fruit off the ground even though there is something wrong with it. What's wrong with it?
(a) It is rotten and infested with maggots.
(b) It is not yet ripe.
(c) It is been pecked at by many birds.
(d) It is been partially digested by an animal and he finds it in animal excrement.

2. 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 announcement that she can kill Arn anytime she wants to and Arn's comment that the food she gives him afterward tastes like dust.
(b) Arn's tears of frustration after each session and his anger when he is telling Mek about her actions.
(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) 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.

3. 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 thinks he'll be good at it since during battles he's had to watch the sky for flying artillery.
(b) Because he used to play it back in his home village and he feels nostalgic about it.
(c) Because he sees that whoever is good at the game becomes important in the eyes of the other kids.
(d) Because he wants to spend his time doing something productive so that he can forget about missing his family.

4. When the Little Fish receive automatic rifles, a tragedy happens. What is it?
(a) Sombo leaves the group in disgust, saying the kids are being made to commit suicide.
(b) Arn shoots another boy from the dance group accidentally.
(c) One of the boys from the dance group shoots himself accidentally.
(d) One of the boys from the dance group shoots Sombo accidentally.

5. The author uses the occasion of Arn's transition into the role of soldier to refer back to events at the start of the novel. What are those events and what triggers them in Arn's thoughts?
(a) He remembers a prayer and recites it out loud, causing him to think about the monk teacher whom he used to bribe so he could skip school to sell his wares.
(b) He looks up into the sky and hears the rat-a-tat-tat of artillery, which makes him think of the sound his cheap vendor bell used to make as he sold from his cart.
(c) He feels a sense of power from being armed and likens it to the feeling he used to get from earning his own money and having the power to buy things other kids couldn't.
(d) He straps a gun and ammunition to his chest and it reminds him of playing soldiers with his little brother Munny, just as they did after the movie so long ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Khmer Rouge soldiers take all of the captives' clothes and burn them, what clothing do they provide instead?

2. What new job does the child leader give the Little Fish so that they can prove their loyalty to Angka?

3. Why does Arn start to suspect that Koong is Sombo's new favorite boy?

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

5. 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?

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