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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what country is Arn's hometown?
(a) India.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) Thailand.
(d) Cambodia.

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

3. 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) 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.
(b) Arn's tears of frustration after each session and his anger when he is telling Mek about her actions.
(c) 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.
(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.

4. What do the rich kids do to Arn when he is selling his wares near the school?
(a) They throw stones at him.
(b) They run to buy his wares.
(c) They spit on him.
(d) They push over his cart in the gutter.

5. What reason does Arn give for it being a dangerous act for him to think about his sister or any of his other family members?
(a) Because Mek is jealous of Arn's feelings about his family.
(b) Because getting his hopes up for a reunion with his family is a waste of time.
(c) Because the Khmer Rouge can see inside his head.
(d) Because it makes him angry at them for letting this happen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the old man who is Arn's first music teacher?

2. Though the Khmer Rouge blame the bad rice harvest on the laziness of the workers, Arn knows it is actually due to what reason?

3. When the trucks of Khmer Rouge soldiers first arrive, what does the radio tell the Cambodian people to do?

4. While the captives subsist on tiny amounts of rice and garbage, what do the Khmer Rouge eat?

5. How do Arn and his little brother Munny get in to see the American movie?

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