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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 the trucks of Khmer Rouge soldiers first arrive, what does the radio tell the Cambodian people to do?
(a) To do nothing and say nothing when the soldiers speak to them.
(b) To learn how to use guns so that they may join the throng of soldiers.
(c) To run away as fast as they can and take nothing with them.
(d) To give the soldiers whatever they can and show that they support them.

2. Who is in the picture that Arn hangs on his bedroom wall at the beginning of the novel?
(a) The Prince of Cambodia's daughter.
(b) His mother during her opera heyday.
(c) The first lady of the United States.
(d) The young U.S. President's widow, Jackie Kennedy.

3. After the children in the band have had no rice for many days, the Khmer Rouge tell them they are getting a special dinner of banana peels, rice husks, and rotten pieces of food. Arn knows that this is usually the food given to which kind of farm animal?
(a) A chicken.
(b) A pig.
(c) A horse.
(d) A goat.

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

5. 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) Substandard rice seed was used.
(d) The monsoons have submerged the rice for too long and it has been unable to grow effectively.

Short Answer 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?

2. Where do Arn and Munny hide when they hear the sounds of a nearby battle during their make-believe game of war?

3. In what country is Arn's hometown?

4. What method does Mek, the new music teacher, tell Arn that he uses to survive?

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

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