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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) Substandard rice seed was used.
(c) The monsoons have submerged the rice for too long and it has been unable to grow effectively.
(d) The soil has been planted too many times with no rest.

2. 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 throws it on the ground and stomps on it.
(d) He puts it aside in case he sees his family again.

3. When some new children arrive at the camp and one of them refuses to cut her hair, how is she punished?
(a) She is denied any food besides grass for weeks.
(b) She is put inside a drum on the temple steps as they beat it and light a fire under it.
(c) She is required to sleep in the manure pile for three nights.
(d) She is wrapped in canvas and tossed high into the air for hours.

4. In what country is Arn's hometown?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) India.
(c) Thailand.
(d) Cambodia.

5. What dance do Arn and Munny perform for the crowd outside the theater?
(a) The Pony.
(b) The Watusi.
(c) The Twist.
(d) The Swim.

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. Why do Arn's sister and aunt break down crying when Arn gives them a treat?

3. While the captives subsist on tiny amounts of rice and garbage, what do the Khmer Rouge eat?

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?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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