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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Khmer Rouge soldiers react when Arn asks them if they want to play soccer with him?
(a) They yell at Arn to go away and threaten to hurt his family.
(b) They kick the ball with little skill and frown the whole time.
(c) They put their guns down and engage in a real enjoyment of the game.
(d) They mercilessly beat one of Arn's friends when Arn's team wins.

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

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

4. Where do Arn and Munny hide when they hear the sounds of a nearby battle during their make-believe game of war?
(a) In the theater where they had seen the movie earlier that night.
(b) In the branches of a nearby Banyan tree.
(c) In their rich next-door-neighbor's Mercedes.
(d) In a pond near their house.

5. Sophea brings news that someone in Arn's family has died while calling out for him. Who is it?
(a) Their brother Munny.
(b) Their sister Mali.
(c) Their sister Jorami.
(d) Their mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Arn and Munny go after the American movie to play a pretend game of war?

2. What product does Arn skip school to sell, much to the chagrin of his older sister?

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

4. When another child captive tells on Arn for lying to increase his number of work breaks, what do the Khmer Rouge soldiers impose as Arn's punishment?

5. When some new children arrive at the camp and one of them refuses to cut her hair, how is she punished?

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