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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Arn give for it being a dangerous act for him to think about his sister or any of his other family members?
(a) Because getting his hopes up for a reunion with his family is a waste of time.
(b) Because it makes him angry at them for letting this happen.
(c) Because Mek is jealous of Arn's feelings about his family.
(d) Because the Khmer Rouge can see inside his head.

2. When the high-ranking soldiers for whom the band played has taken their leave, what is NOT a rule put in place by the remaining Khmer Rouge soldiers?
(a) Now no one is allowed to fall in love.
(b) Now no one is allowed to speak to the soldiers for any reason.
(c) Now no one can hunt for their own food.
(d) Now the band has to play at nighttime meetings so that all of the kids can learn the words to the songs.

3. What reason does Arn give for not eating the human liver that the Khmer Rouge soldier forces him to cook?
(a) He does not eat it because he wants to bring it back to the tent to give it to Kha instead.
(b) He does not eat it because he knows it came from a friend of his.
(c) He does not eat it because he already has a belly full of rice and chicken that the kitchen girl had given him.
(d) He does not eat it because he thinks maybe the next time, another kitchen boy will be eating him instead.

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?
(a) Families with children and families without children.
(b) Males and females.
(c) Cambodians and Vietnamese.
(d) Former peasants and former city-dwellers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Though the Khmer Rouge blame the bad rice harvest on the laziness of the workers, Arn knows it is actually due to what reason?

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

3. Why does the kitchen girl give Arn extra food?

4. How do the Khmer Rouge trick the government soldiers into assembling together at the airport so that they can be killed more efficiently?

5. 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?

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