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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do Arn and his little brother Munny get in to see the American movie?
(a) They borrow money from their older sister, Jorami.
(b) They sneak in through the back door exit.
(c) They hide behind the skirts of a large paying customer.
(d) They beg for money outside the theater.

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?
(a) 10 days.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 14 days.
(d) 5 days.

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

5. Where do Arn and Munny go after the American movie to play a pretend game of war?
(a) The park.
(b) The town square.
(c) The soccer field.
(d) The mango grove.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Once Arn and his group is allowed to stop walking and they form a camp, what two groups do the Khmer Rouge soldiers separate the captives into?

5. What sport do the rich kids play in the yard of their school in the first part of the book?

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