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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Arn save most of the candy Mr. Pond gives him in order to give it to Sojeat and Ravi?
(a) He is made sick by the richness of the candy but doesn't want it to go to waste.
(b) He wants Mr. Pond to know that he is not selfish.
(c) He has learned how to give people things in hopes they will return favors later.
(d) He wants to be able to talk to someone else about how good the candy is.

3. Arn eventually discovers the real reason that the band is asked to play at several specific times each day. What is the reason?
(a) To keep the spirits of the soldiers high.
(b) To cover the sound of skulls being cracked as the Khmer Rouge murder captives.
(c) To keep the band members from running away into the jungle.
(d) To make the field workers dance at regular intervals to amuse the soldiers.

4. Upon realizing that Arn is teasing him by putting a stone on his chest instead of the customary lump of sugar, Mek tells Arn that he has a treat for him. What is the treat?
(a) He hums an old Cambodian love song to Arn that is now illegal.
(b) He shows Arn a firefly he has trapped in a bottle.
(c) He tells Arn a story about how his children used to tease him, too.
(d) He gives Arn a piece of cornbread.

5. What does Arn do with the lump of sugar the kitchen girl gives him after she is done with him?
(a) He gobbles it down once he leaves her tent.
(b) He sneaks into Mek's tent and shares it with him.
(c) He throws it into the jungle.
(d) He gives it to Kha.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a new letter carrier arrives to bring news to the camp, what news does he bring to Arn?

2. When the Khmer Rouge soldiers take all of the captives' clothes and burn them, what clothing do they provide instead?

3. From where does Chantou send Arn a letter?

4. How did Arn's father die?

5. 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?

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