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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. 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?
(a) A goat.
(b) A pig.
(c) A horse.
(d) A chicken.

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 little brother sneaks away to the airport and comes back to report to Arn what he's seen.
(b) His friend's high-ranking father was shot.
(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. What new job does the child leader give the Little Fish so that they can prove their loyalty to Angka?
(a) They must fetch the water for every soldier in the camp for one week without drinking any of it themselves.
(b) They must leap from the trenches they have dug and draw enemy fire.
(c) They must cook all of the food for every soldier in the camp for one week without eating anything themselves.
(d) They must climb onto the tanks of the Vietnamese army and drop grenades inside.

4. Who does Arn encounter when he jumps over the fence into the refugee camp?
(a) Sombo.
(b) Missus Gotobed.
(c) Mek.
(d) Mr. Pond.

5. When he is mistaken for a member of the Khmer Rouge by one of their leaders, what is Arn's reaction?
(a) He vows to get even with this leader someday.
(b) He yells at the leader, telling him that he is a captive.
(c) He sits down on the grass and cries.
(d) He considers running away from camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Arn give for not eating the human liver that the Khmer Rouge soldier forces him to cook?

2. What event causes Arn to sneak out and plead with the new music teacher to start exerting effort in his teaching?

3. Arn hallucinates, seeing a rabbit as large as he is and this illusion seems to lead the way to Thailand. What color is the rabbit he hallucinates?

4. Though at first Arn is furious with Mr. Pond for taking chances that lead to him being shot by a Thai guard, Mr. Pond then reveals news that makes Arn ecstatic. What is that news?

5. The novel is based loosely on the life of a real person and the epilogue therefore informs the reader of Arn Chorn-Pond's activities from 1984 to the present. What organization does it say Arn Chorn-Pond has represented since 1984?

(see the answer key)

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