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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new job does the child leader give the Little Fish so that they can prove their loyalty to Angka?
(a) They must leap from the trenches they have dug and draw enemy fire.
(b) They must cook all of the food for every soldier in the camp for one week without eating anything themselves.
(c) They must climb onto the tanks of the Vietnamese army and drop grenades inside.
(d) They must fetch the water for every soldier in the camp for one week without drinking any of it themselves.

2. When the high-ranking soldiers for whom the band played has taken their leave, what is NOT a rule put in place by the remaining Khmer Rouge soldiers?
(a) Now the band has to play at nighttime meetings so that all of the kids can learn the words to the songs.
(b) Now no one can hunt for their own food.
(c) Now no one is allowed to speak to the soldiers for any reason.
(d) Now no one is allowed to fall in love.

3. When Arn is told by a Khmer Rouge soldier that he has a new job in addition to his job as a musician in the band, what does that new job turn out to be?
(a) He has to take away the material belongings from the captives' tents and give them to the soldiers.
(b) He has to push the dead and dying into the mass grave in the mango grove.
(c) He has to clean the area where the whole camp relieves themselves.
(d) He has to cook for all of the children in the camp.

4. What happens to the old man who is Arn's first music teacher?
(a) He escapes into the jungle in the middle of the night.
(b) The Khmer Rouge soldiers kill him and bury him in the mango grove once he is finished teaching Arn the required songs.
(c) He retires from teaching and is allowed to go back to his family in a nearby camp.
(d) He dies of exhaustion from the effort needed to help Arn learn the intricacies of his instrument.

5. What is the news being reported on the radio when Sombo quickly turns it off to prevent Arn from hearing?
(a) The rice fields in Cambodia are full of the joyful voices of peasants working in the fields.
(b) Everyone in Cambodia is fleeing to Thailand to escape the Khmer Rouge.
(c) Vietnamese soldiers are coming across the border to take over Cambodia by fighting the Khmer Rouge.
(d) The Khmer Rouge have taken over every major city and every small village in Cambodia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the kitchen girl give Arn extra food?

2. What happens to cause Arn to say that now "even the earth is our enemy" (126)?

3. What does the new music teacher give Arn as the reason that he does not care whether he lives or dies?

4. 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?

5. The first person Arn sees in over a year who is not wearing a black uniform is the new leader who arrives at the camp. How does Arn describe his appearance?

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