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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Villagers have crept into camp in the night and have stolen rice.
(b) The soil has been planted too many times with no rest.
(c) The monsoons have submerged the rice for too long and it has been unable to grow effectively.
(d) Substandard rice seed was used.

2. What is Arn's first reaction when a girl sitting next to him at dinner suddenly dies?
(a) He runs away into the jungle to be by himself for a while.
(b) He pushes her to floor to save the other children from having to look at her.
(c) He screams for help and is punished for his cries.
(d) He takes her bowl of rice and keeps on eating.

3. What product does Arn skip school to sell, much to the chagrin of his older sister?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Bowls of rice.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Ice cream.

4. 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?
(a) A swallow.
(b) A robin.
(c) A hummingbird.
(d) A starling.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the Khmer Rouge soldiers react when Arn asks them if they want to play soccer with him?

3. In order to add to his fame even more and thus add to his probability of survival, Arn adds what talent to his repertoire in addition to his playing of the khim?

4. 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?

5. When the trucks of Khmer Rouge soldiers first arrive, what does the radio tell the Cambodian people to do?

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