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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells Arn's aunt about Arn and Munny seeing the American movie?
(a) Mali.
(b) Sophea.
(c) Munny.
(d) Sojeat.

2. What does Arn say that convinces the new music teacher to make more of an effort to teach the children?
(a) Arn tells him that every child in the band will be killed if he does not.
(b) Arn tells him that soon the band will become famous across the country if he does.
(c) Arn tells him that the music is crucial to keeping up the morale of the field workers.
(d) Arn tells him that he'll be killed if he does not.

3. When the word "sleep" is banned by the Khmer Rouge, what word is allowed in its place?
(a) Nap.
(b) Rest.
(c) Die.
(d) Doze.

4. When Arn is told by a Khmer Rouge soldier that he has a new job in addition to his job as a musician in the band, what does that new job turn out to be?
(a) He has to push the dead and dying into the mass grave in the mango grove.
(b) He has to clean the area where the whole camp relieves themselves.
(c) He has to cook for all of the children in the camp.
(d) He has to take away the material belongings from the captives' tents and give them to the soldiers.

5. When some new children arrive at the camp and one of them refuses to cut her hair, how is she punished?
(a) She is put inside a drum on the temple steps as they beat it and light a fire under it.
(b) She is denied any food besides grass for weeks.
(c) She is wrapped in canvas and tossed high into the air for hours.
(d) She is required to sleep in the manure pile for three nights.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Chantou gets mad that Arn is working as a vendor, what is NOT something she says he should be doing instead?

3. When the five-year-old boy that reminds Arn of his little brother sneaks out night after night, returning only in the morning, what does Arn eventually find out he is doing?

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

5. How did Arn's father die?

(see the answer key)

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