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

2. Which of the following is NOT a topic of the Khmer Rouge songs the children are taught to play with their musical instruments?
(a) Rice.
(b) God's love.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Sacrifice.

3. What event precipitates the band members being fed real rice and being forced to practice their music all night long?
(a) A performance at a large meeting for all of the highest-ranking Khmer Rouge leaders.
(b) A performance for the American soldiers.
(c) A traveling performance for all the people who have resettled in their home villages since the evacuation.
(d) A performance for the Vietnamese soldiers.

4. What causes Arn to think that finally the Khmer Rouge may have won the metaphorical battle between himself and the soldiers?
(a) He can no longer remember the faces of his family members.
(b) He realizes that he wants to please the soldiers more than he wants to stay alive.
(c) He loses his appetite and feels that even if he were given an entire meal, he would refuse to eat it.
(d) He thinks that he'd rather see any other child in the camp die than to die himself.

5. How does Arn cope with his feelings when the Khmer Rouge kitchen girl sexually molests him?
(a) He cries.
(b) He lashes out and hits the kitchen girl.
(c) He disassociates by going somewhere else in his mind.
(d) He vows never to enter the kitchen again.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Arn and Munny hide when they hear the sounds of a nearby battle during their make-believe game of war?

2. What sport do the rich kids play in the yard of their school in the first part of the book?

3. 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?

4. Why does the kitchen girl give Arn extra food?

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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