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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Chantou gets mad that Arn is working as a vendor, what is NOT something she says he should be doing instead?
(a) Learning how to use a gun.
(b) Doing schoolwork.
(c) Learning chants.
(d) Doing chores for the monks.

2. When the Khmer Rouge soldiers take all of the captives' clothes and burn them, what clothing do they provide instead?
(a) Red uniforms.
(b) Yellow uniforms.
(c) Black uniforms.
(d) Green uniforms.

3. What happens to the old man who is Arn's first music teacher?
(a) He retires from teaching and is allowed to go back to his family in a nearby camp.
(b) The Khmer Rouge soldiers kill him and bury him in the mango grove once he is finished teaching Arn the required songs.
(c) He escapes into the jungle in the middle of the night.
(d) He dies of exhaustion from the effort needed to help Arn learn the intricacies of his instrument.

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

5. How did Arn's father die?
(a) In a motorcycle accident.
(b) In a battle near their village.
(c) In the hospital while suffering from malaria.
(d) In a stage accident during an opera performance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Why does Arn at first hesitate to volunteer when a high-ranking Khmer Rouge soldier asks who wants to play music in a band within the camp?

4. What dance do Arn and Munny perform for the crowd outside the theater?

5. Where do Arn and Munny go after the American movie to play a pretend game of war?

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