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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Chantou gets mad that Arn is working as a vendor, what is NOT something she says he should be doing instead?
(a) Doing chores for the monks.
(b) Learning how to use a gun.
(c) Doing schoolwork.
(d) Learning chants.

2. When some new children arrive at the camp and one of them refuses to cut her hair, how is she punished?
(a) She is required to sleep in the manure pile for three nights.
(b) She is denied any food besides grass for weeks.
(c) She is wrapped in canvas and tossed high into the air for hours.
(d) She is put inside a drum on the temple steps as they beat it and light a fire under it.

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?
(a) Because their stomachs are empty.
(b) Because they might get disoriented and drown.
(c) Because the soldiers won't let them.
(d) Because there are poisonous snakes that lurk at the bottom of the pond.

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

5. What do the Khmer Rouge soldiers lack that makes the soldiers associated with the Prince doubt their power?
(a) Grenades.
(b) Boots.
(c) Homogeneous uniforms.
(d) Guns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event precipitates the band members being fed real rice and being forced to practice their music all night long?

2. In what country is Arn's hometown?

3. As soon as Arn realizes he can see Thailand on the other side of the river, something about it frightens him and makes him want to stop and not go on. What is it about Thailand that frightens him?

4. How old is Arn when the novel's narrative first begins?

5. Why does Arn start to suspect that Koong is Sombo's new favorite boy?

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