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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 does Arn say that convinces the new music teacher to make more of an effort to teach the children?
(a) Arn tells him that every child in the band will be killed if he does not.
(b) Arn tells him that soon the band will become famous across the country if he does.
(c) Arn tells him that the music is crucial to keeping up the morale of the field workers.
(d) Arn tells him that he'll be killed if he does not.

2. What happens to the first guard to make Sombo come to replace him?
(a) He falls asleep at his post one time and is never seen again.
(b) He runs away into the jungle.
(c) He eats too much rotten food and contracts a blood disease.
(d) He goes on leave to get married.

3. 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 take away the material belongings from the captives' tents and give them to the soldiers.
(c) He has to cook for all of the children in the camp.
(d) He has to clean the area where the whole camp relieves themselves.

4. Though the Khmer Rouge blame the bad rice harvest on the laziness of the workers, Arn knows it is actually due to what reason?
(a) The monsoons have submerged the rice for too long and it has been unable to grow effectively.
(b) Substandard rice seed was used.
(c) Villagers have crept into camp in the night and have stolen rice.
(d) The soil has been planted too many times with no rest.

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?
(a) His friend's high-ranking father was shot.
(b) His little brother sneaks away to the airport and comes back to report to Arn what he's seen.
(c) He sees their bodies during the mass exodus from the village.
(d) The Khmer Rouge soldiers drive through town announcing the murders they've committed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the new music teacher is too overcome by his own sadness to teach the children, Arn teaches them himself, instructing them to hit the strings lightly, like the wings of what bird?

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

4. What are the two forms of compensation that the news bearer accepts in return for news about the captives' families?

5. What is Arn's first reaction when a girl sitting next to him at dinner suddenly dies?

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