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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When some new children arrive at the camp and one of them refuses to cut her hair, how is she punished?
(a) She is put inside a drum on the temple steps as they beat it and light a fire under it.
(b) She is required to sleep in the manure pile for three nights.
(c) She is wrapped in canvas and tossed high into the air for hours.
(d) She is denied any food besides grass for weeks.

2. What kind of platoon is Arn's sister traveling with?
(a) A group of children soldiers.
(b) A group of high-ranking Khmer Rouge leaders.
(c) A group of all female soldiers.
(d) A group of ragtag escapees from other platoons.

3. 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?
(a) He is afraid the soldiers in the next camp will kill his little sister Sophea if he runs away.
(b) He now feels so far removed from his biological family that his friends seem much more important to stay close to in this world.
(c) He is afraid that the Khmer Rouge will recognize him due to his fame and shoot him for the traitor they will consider him to be.
(d) He realizes that he has no idea why he does not run away; the thought has just never occurred to him.

4. When Arn has fallen so ill that he's afraid he will die, an American man comes to the hospital. What does Arn do in order to get the man's attention?
(a) He throws his breakfast across the room.
(b) He screams as loud as he can as the man passes by Arn's bed.
(c) He casts a pleading look at the man as he passes by Arn's bed.
(d) He intentionally falls off his bed into the man's pathway.

5. When Arn finds Sophea lying motionless, he considers killing her to save her from rape, from murder at another's hands, or from being eaten by wild animals. He doesn't, instead choosing to take what action?
(a) Tell Koong to watch over her until she dies and to join up with the group again later.
(b) Keep walking.
(c) Hide her the best he can.
(d) Help her into a tree so the animals cannot get her.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a new letter carrier arrives to bring news to the camp, what news does he bring to Arn?

2. Sophea brings news that someone in Arn's family has died while calling out for him. Who is it?

3. What does Arn do when the pretty woman with the long braid begs Arn to shoot her?

4. The second time Arn joins the volleyball game, he plays skillfully and everyone claps. Why does he do so well at the game this time around?

5. What simile does Arn use to describe his sister's appearance when he sees her?

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