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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first person Arn sees in over a year who is not wearing a black uniform is the new leader who arrives at the camp. How does Arn describe his appearance?
(a) He is wearing a linen caftan.
(b) He is wearing black shorts and a white shirt.
(c) He is wearing white shorts and no shirt.
(d) He is wearing a business suit.

2. Why does the kitchen girl give Arn extra food?
(a) Because he threatens to hurt her if she does not.
(b) Because she is a member of the Khmer Rouge and realizes that he needs strength in order to do his job and play music well.
(c) Because he has become famous from playing his kihm and she admires him.
(d) Because she says he looks too skinny.

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

4. Which of the following is NOT a topic of the Khmer Rouge songs the children are taught to play with their musical instruments?
(a) God's love.
(b) Rice.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Sacrifice.

5. After asking Sombo many times why he is permissive with Arn and overlooks his breaking of the rules, Sombo reveals the reason. What does he say is the reason?
(a) He says that he has a special affinity for Arn because of his musical talent.
(b) He says that he was an orphan who was forced to steal in order to survive as well.
(c) He says that he hates what the Khmer Rouge make him do to punish children who break the rules, so he tries not to turn them in if he can help it.
(d) He says that he knew Arn's father before he was killed and that he feels a responsibility to take care of Arn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it about Arn that makes the soldier let him go without even a warning when he is caught sneaking to Mek's tent in the night?

2. What causes Arn to think that finally the Khmer Rouge may have won the metaphorical battle between himself and the soldiers?

3. After the children in the band have had no rice for many days, the Khmer Rouge tell them they are getting a special dinner of banana peels, rice husks, and rotten pieces of food. Arn knows that this is usually the food given to which kind of farm animal?

4. What does Arn do with the lump of sugar the kitchen girl gives him after she is done with him?

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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