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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-18 & Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Peter Pond sends a message to the boys that they're leaving for America in one week, what is one thing he does NOT include in the package?
(a) Travel documents.
(b) 20 U.S. dollars.
(c) Playing cards.
(d) Chuckles candy.

2. 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 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.
(b) 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.
(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 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.

3. What event causes Arn to sneak out and plead with the new music teacher to start exerting effort in his teaching?
(a) A Khmer Rouge guard asks Arn how the band is progressing and whether the new music teacher has a good or a bad character.
(b) Arn realizes that though he can play and teach all of the instruments to the other children, he wants a father figure to be their leader.
(c) Arn has taken a genuine interest in the musical arts and wants to do anything he can to fuel his new passion.
(d) Arn knows that the new music teacher is a friend of his mother's and so he wants to preserve the teacher's life.

4. The morning just before the Khmer Rouge drive through the village making announcements on their bullhorns, what sounds are noticeably absent?
(a) The sound of gunfire and the sound of explosions.
(b) The sound of monks chanting and the sound of the temple gong.
(c) The sound of birds chirping and the sound of the wind in the trees.
(d) The sound of children laughing and the sound of vendors selling their wares.

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) 3 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 1 1/2 years.
(d) 2 1/2 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. The reader learns from the epilogue the fate of the real Sombo. What is this fate?

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

3. When the new music teacher is too overcome by his own sadness to teach the children, Arn teaches them himself, instructing them to hit the strings lightly, like the wings of what bird?

4. When Arn quits playing volleyball, what does he do with his time at the Children's Center instead?

5. What does Sojeat say to Arn at the dinner table that makes Arn so mad that he attacks Sojeat?

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