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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Arn start to suspect that Koong is Sombo's new favorite boy?
(a) Sombo tells Arn not to be jealous, but it just makes Arn sure his suspicions are correct.
(b) Sombo now speaks roughly to Arn, while speaking sweetly to Koong.
(c) Sombo now gives Koong extra food.
(d) Sombo now sleeps alongside Koong.

2. When the new music teacher is too overcome by his own sadness to teach the children, Arn teaches them himself, instructing them to hit the strings lightly, like the wings of what bird?
(a) A swallow.
(b) A starling.
(c) A hummingbird.
(d) A robin.

3. When the Vietnamese soldiers kill everyone in the village by drawing them out with offers of free rice, why does Arn look at each dead person's face as he walks through the village?
(a) He doesn't know why he wants to look at their faces, but he does.
(b) He wants to see what expressions they had on their faces when they died.
(c) He is looking for any member of his family.
(d) He wants to count how many males they killed versus how many males they killed.

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?
(a) A pig.
(b) A chicken.
(c) A goat.
(d) A horse.

5. What happens the first time Arn shoots his gun?
(a) He has a violent flashback of the boy in his village being hit with the butt of a rifle and killed.
(b) He is knocked off his feet by the force of the shot.
(c) He shoots a Vietnamese soldier hiding among the trees.
(d) He accidentally shoots Kha, but it is only a superficial wound.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Khmer Rouge soldiers take all of the captives' clothes and burn them, what clothing do they provide instead?

2. At one point, Arn becomes so hungry and thirsty and eats fruit off the ground even though there is something wrong with it. What's wrong with it?

3. 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?

4. What new job does the child leader give the Little Fish so that they can prove their loyalty to Angka?

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

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