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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While the captives subsist on tiny amounts of rice and garbage, what do the Khmer Rouge eat?
(a) Caviar, foie gras, and steak.
(b) Grass, leaves, and clay.
(c) Chicken, fish, and lemongrass.
(d) Sardines, mussels, and clams.

2. What does Arn do with the food the kitchen girl gives him after she is done using him for her pleasure?
(a) He gives it to Siv or Kha or Mek.
(b) He puts it aside in case he sees his family again.
(c) He gives it to the Khmer Rouge leader with the white shorts.
(d) He throws it on the ground and stomps on it.

3. Arn eventually discovers the real reason that the band is asked to play at several specific times each day. What is the reason?
(a) To cover the sound of skulls being cracked as the Khmer Rouge murder captives.
(b) To keep the band members from running away into the jungle.
(c) To make the field workers dance at regular intervals to amuse the soldiers.
(d) To keep the spirits of the soldiers high.

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

5. What event precipitates the band members being fed real rice and being forced to practice their music all night long?
(a) A performance for the Vietnamese soldiers.
(b) A traveling performance for all the people who have resettled in their home villages since the evacuation.
(c) A performance at a large meeting for all of the highest-ranking Khmer Rouge leaders.
(d) A performance for the American soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What details does the author include to let the reader know that the kitchen girl's sexual molestation of Arn happens without his consent?

2. What happens to the first guard to make Sombo come to replace him?

3. 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?

4. Why do Arn's sister and aunt break down crying when Arn gives them a treat?

5. Sophea brings news that someone in Arn's family has died while calling out for him. Who is it?

(see the answer key)

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