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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 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?
(a) A starling.
(b) A robin.
(c) A hummingbird.
(d) A swallow.

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

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

4. The boy who runs away from camp and escapes amidst a flurry of gunfire by the Khmer Rouge is a former boyfriend of which of Arn's siblings?
(a) Munny.
(b) Mali.
(c) Jorami.
(d) Sophea.

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 happens to the first guard to make Sombo come to replace him?

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. Why do Arn and his siblings live with their aunt?

4. The morning just before the Khmer Rouge drive through the village making announcements on their bullhorns, what sounds are noticeably absent?

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

(see the answer key)

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