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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Khmer Rouge soldiers lack that makes the soldiers associated with the Prince doubt their power?
(a) Guns.
(b) Boots.
(c) Grenades.
(d) Homogeneous uniforms.

2. What is the stringed instrument called that Arn learns to play in the band?
(a) Khim.
(b) Viola.
(c) Dulcimer.
(d) Harpsichord.

3. How does Arn describe the monks at the temple school?
(a) He says they are kind but that they make the children work all the time.
(b) He says they are hard to communicate with since they've taken a vow of silence.
(c) He says they are mean and that they make the children work all the time.
(d) He says they are corrupt and secretly take bribes from government officials.

4. Who is in the picture that Arn hangs on his bedroom wall at the beginning of the novel?
(a) The first lady of the United States.
(b) His mother during her opera heyday.
(c) The Prince of Cambodia's daughter.
(d) The young U.S. President's widow, Jackie Kennedy.

5. What sport do the rich kids play in the yard of their school in the first part of the book?
(a) Lacrosse.
(b) Volleyball.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Soccer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Arn and his siblings live with their aunt?

2. What is Arn's first reaction when a girl sitting next to him at dinner suddenly dies?

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

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

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

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