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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After the first battle when the Little Fish are used by the adult soldiers as bait for the Vietnamese, how many of the original number of boys are left?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

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

4. Upon realizing that Arn is teasing him by putting a stone on his chest instead of the customary lump of sugar, Mek tells Arn that he has a treat for him. What is the treat?
(a) He hums an old Cambodian love song to Arn that is now illegal.
(b) He tells Arn a story about how his children used to tease him, too.
(c) He shows Arn a firefly he has trapped in a bottle.
(d) He gives Arn a piece of cornbread.

5. What instructions does Arn's sister give him when he is able to sneak out to see her in the night?
(a) She tells him to ask Sombo if she can join their group as their new rice girl.
(b) She tells him not to be too brave and to hide from the bullets so she can see him again.
(c) She tells him to listen to Sombo and to practice the art of war continually so that he may stay alive.
(d) She tells him to run away and to meet her at the mountain camp where two of their other sisters are living.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Koong's function within Sombo's group?

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

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

4. 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?

5. From where does Chantou send Arn a letter?

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