1. What two factions are represented by the radio stations they listen to on Sombo's radio?
(a) Vietnam and Cambodia.
(b) Angka and the Voice of America.
(c) The Voice of America and Bangkok.
(d) The Voice of Thailand and the Khmer Rouge.

2. When the Little Fish receive automatic rifles, a tragedy happens. What is it?
(a) One of the boys from the dance group shoots Sombo accidentally.
(b) Sombo leaves the group in disgust, saying the kids are being made to commit suicide.
(c) Arn shoots another boy from the dance group accidentally.
(d) One of the boys from the dance group shoots himself accidentally.

3. Who tells Arn that Sombo is only being mean in order to protect Arn from harm?
(a) The leader with the white shorts.
(b) Kha.
(c) Chantou.
(d) Mek.

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?
(a) 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.
(b) Arn's tears of frustration after each session and his anger when he is telling Mek about her actions.
(c) 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.
(d) 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.

5. 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) Former peasants and former city-dwellers.
(b) Cambodians and Vietnamese.
(c) Families with children and families without children.
(d) Males and females.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Why does Sombo leave Arn and the other boys to fend for themselves?

3. What is the stringed instrument called that Arn learns to play in the band?

4. When some new children arrive at the camp and one of them refuses to cut her hair, how is she punished?

5. Why does Sombo return to the hidden village to kill everyone who lives there?

(see the answer key)

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