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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once Arn and his group is allowed to stop walking and they form a camp, what two groups do the Khmer Rouge soldiers separate the captives into?
(a) Males and females.
(b) Former peasants and former city-dwellers.
(c) Families with children and families without children.
(d) Cambodians and Vietnamese.

2. What details does the author include to let the reader know that the kitchen girl's sexual molestation of Arn happens without his consent?
(a) Arn's secret plot to kill the kitchen girl before he escapes and the way in which he pretends to stab her when she turns her back.
(b) The kitchen girl's threats to kill his family if he tells anyone and Arn's decision to turn the kitchen girl in for a transgression she didn't commit.
(c) Arn's tears of frustration after each session and his anger when he is telling Mek about her actions.
(d) The kitchen girl's announcement that she can kill Arn anytime she wants to and Arn's comment that the food she gives him afterward tastes like dust.

3. What reason does Arn give for not eating the human liver that the Khmer Rouge soldier forces him to cook?
(a) He does not eat it because he already has a belly full of rice and chicken that the kitchen girl had given him.
(b) He does not eat it because he thinks maybe the next time, another kitchen boy will be eating him instead.
(c) He does not eat it because he wants to bring it back to the tent to give it to Kha instead.
(d) He does not eat it because he knows it came from a friend of his.

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

5. Arn eventually discovers the real reason that the band is asked to play at several specific times each day. What is the reason?
(a) To make the field workers dance at regular intervals to amuse the soldiers.
(b) To keep the band members from running away into the jungle.
(c) To cover the sound of skulls being cracked as the Khmer Rouge murder captives.
(d) To keep the spirits of the soldiers high.

Short Answer Questions

1. The morning just before the Khmer Rouge drive through the village making announcements on their bullhorns, what sounds are noticeably absent?

2. The author uses the occasion of Arn's transition into the role of soldier to refer back to events at the start of the novel. What are those events and what triggers them in Arn's thoughts?

3. What causes Arn to think that finally the Khmer Rouge may have won the metaphorical battle between himself and the soldiers?

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

5. What kind of platoon is Arn's sister traveling with?

(see the answer key)

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