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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Because the Khmer Rouge can see inside his head.
(b) Because getting his hopes up for a reunion with his family is a waste of time.
(c) Because Mek is jealous of Arn's feelings about his family.
(d) Because it makes him angry at them for letting this happen.

2. What is the event that first causes Arn to think maybe the Khmer Rouge have evil intentions?
(a) A soldier sees Arn selling his wares on the street and tips over his cart for no apparent reason.
(b) He sees a soldier kill a boy when the boy refuses his request for a motorcycle ride.
(c) He sees a soldier speaking roughly to a monk at his temple school.
(d) Hi sister tells him that all of the girls in the village are being rounded up by the soldiers in order to force the girls to cut their hair short.

3. 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 young U.S. President's widow, Jackie Kennedy.
(d) The first lady of the United States.

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 their rich next-door-neighbor's Mercedes.
(b) In the theater where they had seen the movie earlier that night.
(c) In the branches of a nearby Banyan tree.
(d) In a pond near their house.

5. What do the rich kids do to Arn when he is selling his wares near the school?
(a) They throw stones at him.
(b) They run to buy his wares.
(c) They push over his cart in the gutter.
(d) They spit on him.

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 Arn and his little brother Munny get in to see the American movie?

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?

4. When Arn is told by a Khmer Rouge soldier that he has a new job in addition to his job as a musician in the band, what does that new job turn out to be?

5. What does Arn do with the lump of sugar the kitchen girl gives him after she is done with him?

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