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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 cook all of the food for every soldier in the camp for one week without eating anything themselves.
(b) They must leap from the trenches they have dug and draw enemy fire.
(c) They must fetch the water for every soldier in the camp for one week without drinking any of it themselves.
(d) They must climb onto the tanks of the Vietnamese army and drop grenades inside.

2. What does Arn do with the food the kitchen girl gives him after she is done using him for her pleasure?
(a) He throws it on the ground and stomps on it.
(b) He gives it to the Khmer Rouge leader with the white shorts.
(c) He gives it to Siv or Kha or Mek.
(d) He puts it aside in case he sees his family again.

3. What does Arn do with the lump of sugar the kitchen girl gives him after she is done with him?
(a) He sneaks into Mek's tent and shares it with him.
(b) He throws it into the jungle.
(c) He gobbles it down once he leaves her tent.
(d) He gives it to Kha.

4. When the Khmer Rouge evacuate all of the cities in order to force everyone into agricultural work, how many days do they tell the villagers they will be gone?
(a) 14 days.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 10 days.

5. The Khmer Rouge tell the band that they are going on a trip and everyone is expecting to be killed. Instead, what happens?
(a) They are put into the back of a truck and driven around for hours in order to disorient them.
(b) They are permitted to go the Thailand border to see if they can find their family members.
(c) They go to a nearby village and are ordered to kill everyone living there.
(d) They embark on a tour of the agricultural fields in order to entertain the workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in the picture that Arn hangs on his bedroom wall at the beginning of the novel?

2. When another child captive tells on Arn for lying to increase his number of work breaks, what do the Khmer Rouge soldiers impose as Arn's punishment?

3. When Arn, Kha, and Siv are allowed to go in the pond to wash, they try to sink to the bottom, partly in order to escape the world above the water. Why can they not sink very far down for very long?

4. What details does the author include to let the reader know that the kitchen girl's sexual molestation of Arn happens without his consent?

5. While the captives subsist on tiny amounts of rice and garbage, what do the Khmer Rouge eat?

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