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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Arn and his siblings live with their aunt?
(a) Because their mother was overcome with grief after their father died and said she had to leave the family.
(b) Because their aunt is rich and can take better care of a large family than their mother can.
(c) Because after their father's death, their mother had to go far away to find work.
(d) Because their mother is dead.

2. The boy who runs away from camp and escapes amidst a flurry of gunfire by the Khmer Rouge is a former boyfriend of which of Arn's siblings?
(a) Munny.
(b) Mali.
(c) Sophea.
(d) Jorami.

3. How do the Khmer Rouge trick the government soldiers into assembling together at the airport so that they can be killed more efficiently?
(a) They tell them that a large supply of food has just been flown in by the Americans.
(b) They tell them that their families are in danger but that they cannot tell them why until they all congregate together for a meeting.
(c) They tell them that they will each be given a large sum of money if they go to the airport to help fix the runways.
(d) They tell them that the prince has just arrived at the airport and that they should come welcome him back home.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Arn find out unequivocally that the government soldiers who answered the Khmer Rouge's call to go to the airport were subsequently murdered?

3. When the Khmer Rouge evacuate all of the cities in order to force everyone into agricultural work, how many days do they tell the villagers they will be gone?

4. What lesson does Arn learn from his experience getting told on by another boy in the camp?

5. Which of the following is NOT a topic of the Khmer Rouge songs the children are taught to play with their musical instruments?

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