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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 kick the ball with little skill and frown the whole time.
(b) They put their guns down and engage in a real enjoyment of the game.
(c) They mercilessly beat one of Arn's friends when Arn's team wins.
(d) They yell at Arn to go away and threaten to hurt his family.

2. What does the new music teacher give Arn as the reason that he does not care whether he lives or dies?
(a) His children are all dead and he does not know where his wife is.
(b) He has had malaria for months and it has robbed him of his energy.
(c) His true passion is for the theater arts, so he is disappointed that he is being forced to teach music instead.
(d) His passion for music has been twisted by the war into something ugly and he can no longer bear to teach it to others.

3. What occurs in the American movie that causes Arn and Munny to hide their faces in their shirts?
(a) Bloody battle scenes.
(b) Kissing.
(c) A villain looking into the camera.
(d) Displays of wealth like shiny new cars.

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

5. What event causes Arn to wonder if he has become a monster just like the Khmer Rouge soldiers?
(a) He feels happiness at hearing that one soldier has been murdered for speaking roughly to another soldier.
(b) He feels happiness at hearing that his rich neighbors have all been killed for their elitist ways.
(c) He feels happiness at seeing Kha die, since now he is at least out of his misery.
(d) He feels happiness at the sight of the boy who previously got him into trouble being beaten by a soldier for being lazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event precipitates the band members being fed real rice and being forced to practice their music all night long?

2. What is the stringed instrument called that Arn learns to play in the band?

3. Though the Khmer Rouge blame the bad rice harvest on the laziness of the workers, Arn knows it is actually due to what reason?

4. How does Arn cope with his feelings when the Khmer Rouge kitchen girl sexually molests him?

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

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