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

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

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?
(a) He is refused food for three days.
(b) He is forced to sleep in a pile of manure for three nights.
(c) He is tied to a tree and chastised by the other child captives.
(d) He is forced to burn his uniform.

3. What event causes Arn to sneak out and plead with the new music teacher to start exerting effort in his teaching?
(a) Arn has taken a genuine interest in the musical arts and wants to do anything he can to fuel his new passion.
(b) A Khmer Rouge guard asks Arn how the band is progressing and whether the new music teacher has a good or a bad character.
(c) Arn knows that the new music teacher is a friend of his mother's and so he wants to preserve the teacher's life.
(d) Arn realizes that though he can play and teach all of the instruments to the other children, he wants a father figure to be their leader.

4. How does Arn describe the monks at the temple school?
(a) He says they are kind but that they make the children work all the time.
(b) He says they are hard to communicate with since they've taken a vow of silence.
(c) He says they are corrupt and secretly take bribes from government officials.
(d) He says they are mean and that they make the children work all the time.

5. What is the stringed instrument called that Arn learns to play in the band?
(a) Harpsichord.
(b) Khim.
(c) Dulcimer.
(d) Viola.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. After asking Sombo many times why he is permissive with Arn and overlooks his breaking of the rules, Sombo reveals the reason. What does he say is the reason?

3. When Sombo takes Arn away from the group, his parting from Kha and Siv is especially hard. What about the separation makes it particularly tough for Arn?

4. What instructions does Arn's sister give him when he is able to sneak out to see her in the night?

5. 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?

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