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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-18 & Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the new music teacher give Arn as the reason that he does not care whether he lives or dies?
(a) His passion for music has been twisted by the war into something ugly and he can no longer bear to teach it to others.
(b) His true passion is for the theater arts, so he is disappointed that he is being forced to teach music instead.
(c) His children are all dead and he does not know where his wife is.
(d) He has had malaria for months and it has robbed him of his energy.

2. What sport do the rich kids play in the yard of their school in the first part of the book?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Volleyball.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Lacrosse.

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 wants to count how many males they killed versus how many males they killed.
(b) He doesn't know why he wants to look at their faces, but he does.
(c) He is looking for any member of his family.
(d) He wants to see what expressions they had on their faces when they died.

4. Where does Arn give his very first speech to a large crowd?
(a) At a church.
(b) At a park.
(c) At the train station.
(d) At the mall.

5. 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?
(a) It is not yet ripe.
(b) It is been pecked at by many birds.
(c) It is rotten and infested with maggots.
(d) It is been partially digested by an animal and he finds it in animal excrement.

Short Answer Questions

1. The real Arn Chorn-Pond founded an organization of his own in 1998. What is that organization and what is its goal?

2. The second time the boys appear in a local newspaper, what does the article accuse them of doing?

3. What product does Arn skip school to sell, much to the chagrin of his older sister?

4. What does Arn do when he becomes too frustrated with Pat's efforts to teach him how to say the English 'th' sound?

5. What is Koong's function within Sombo's group?

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