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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Chantou gets mad that Arn is working as a vendor, what is NOT something she says he should be doing instead?
(a) Doing schoolwork.
(b) Doing chores for the monks.
(c) Learning how to use a gun.
(d) Learning chants.

2. How did Arn's father die?
(a) In the hospital while suffering from malaria.
(b) In a stage accident during an opera performance.
(c) In a battle near their village.
(d) In a motorcycle accident.

3. 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 gives it to the Khmer Rouge leader with the white shorts.
(c) He puts it aside in case he sees his family again.
(d) He throws it on the ground and stomps on it.

4. What event causes Arn to wonder if he has become a monster just like the Khmer Rouge soldiers?
(a) He feels happiness at seeing Kha die, since now he is at least out of his misery.
(b) He feels happiness at hearing that his rich neighbors have all been killed for their elitist ways.
(c) He feels happiness at hearing that one soldier has been murdered for speaking roughly to another soldier.
(d) He feels happiness at the sight of the boy who previously got him into trouble being beaten by a soldier for being lazy.

5. The Khmer Rouge tell the band that they are going on a trip and everyone is expecting to be killed. Instead, what happens?
(a) They are put into the back of a truck and driven around for hours in order to disorient them.
(b) They are permitted to go the Thailand border to see if they can find their family members.
(c) They embark on a tour of the agricultural fields in order to entertain the workers.
(d) They go to a nearby village and are ordered to kill everyone living there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Arn give for not eating the human liver that the Khmer Rouge soldier forces him to cook?

2. Arn eventually discovers the real reason that the band is asked to play at several specific times each day. What is the reason?

3. What event causes Arn to sneak out and plead with the new music teacher to start exerting effort in his teaching?

4. Upon realizing that Arn is teasing him by putting a stone on his chest instead of the customary lump of sugar, Mek tells Arn that he has a treat for him. What is the treat?

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

(see the answer key)

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