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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happens the first time Arn shoots his gun?
(a) He is knocked off his feet by the force of the shot.
(b) He accidentally shoots Kha, but it is only a superficial wound.
(c) He has a violent flashback of the boy in his village being hit with the butt of a rifle and killed.
(d) He shoots a Vietnamese soldier hiding among the trees.

4. What causes Arn to think that finally the Khmer Rouge may have won the metaphorical battle between himself and the soldiers?
(a) He can no longer remember the faces of his family members.
(b) He realizes that he wants to please the soldiers more than he wants to stay alive.
(c) He loses his appetite and feels that even if he were given an entire meal, he would refuse to eat it.
(d) He thinks that he'd rather see any other child in the camp die than to die himself.

5. What dance do Arn and Munny perform for the crowd outside the theater?
(a) The Swim.
(b) The Watusi.
(c) The Pony.
(d) The Twist.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a new letter carrier arrives to bring news to the camp, what news does he bring to Arn?

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. Once Arn and his group is allowed to stop walking and they form a camp, what two groups do the Khmer Rouge soldiers separate the captives into?

4. How does Arn describe the monks at the temple school?

5. Arn eventually discovers the real reason that the band is asked to play at several specific times each day. What is the reason?

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