1. Why does Sombo return to the hidden village to kill everyone who lives there?
(a) Because he is worried that if he does not, the villagers will sneak into their camp and kill them first.
(b) Because he has become thirsty for blood after a lack of battle for so long.
(c) Because he goes back to steal their food and they put up a struggle, so he kills them.
(d) Because he thinks they told the Vietnamese his group's location.

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

3. 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 climbing trees to eat the fruit.
(b) He is attacking the Khmer Rouge soldiers from the jungle.
(c) He is stealing rice from the kitchen.
(d) He is eating dead people's flesh in the mango grove.

4. In what country does the boys' first flight stop during a layover?
(a) Holland.
(b) France.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Poland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who tells Arn that Sombo is only being mean in order to protect Arn from harm?

3. How many kids are there in the high school the boys attend?

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

5. After Arn becomes a sort of personal assistant to the leader with the white shorts, what privilege is he granted?

(see the answer key)

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