The Rent Collector Ch. 8-10

Now that Sang Ly can read, what would she like Sopeap to teach her?

• Mathematics

• Writing

• Literature

• Science

What must Song Ly do in order for Sopeap to discuss literature with her?

• Bring her more rice wine.

• Work hard and bring her more rice wine

• Bring her more rice wine and an example of literature

• Work hard and bring her an example of literature

Where does Sang Ly find the example of literature?

• Her cousin Narin shares a poem with her.

• She finds an article from a magazine in the dump

• Lucky Fat brings her a book he finds

• She finds an advertisement slogan when she is picking

How did Narin get the poem?

• From a children's book her mother read to her as a child.

• She had memorized it from hearing her mother recite it.

• She wrote the poem herself.

• She found the book while she was picking trash.

What does Sopeap notice about the poem that Sang Ly did not?

• Each stanza names a different animal

• Each stanza ends in a rhyme

• Each stanza has a different pattern

• Each stanza mentions a color that paints a rainbow in the sky.

Why must they go quickly through the literature lessons?

• So they have time to pick through the trash

• Because Narin can no longer watch Nisay.

• Because Sopeap doesn't want to waste her time.

• Because Sopeap is leaving Stung Meanchey.

Why is the girl, Maly, who Lucky Fat brings to Sang Ly bleeding?

• She fell on glass while working at the dump

• She was raped by the gang who roam the dump

• She has started her menstruation cycle (period)

• Her body is sick from living at the dump.

Now that Maly is a "woman" where do her brothers want to send her?

• To the city to be married

• To the city to work as a prostitute

• To the city to work as a waitress

• To the city to have a better life

Sopeap says that good stories always do what?

• Entertain

• Bring joy

• Cause controversy

• Teach

What is the rumor, going around the dump, about Maly?

• She has runaway

• She has been kidnapped

• She has left the city to work in a brothel

• Her brothers have forced her into their gang