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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the kitchen girl give Arn extra food?
(a) Because he threatens to hurt her if she does not.
(b) Because he has become famous from playing his kihm and she admires him.
(c) Because she is a member of the Khmer Rouge and realizes that he needs strength in order to do his job and play music well.
(d) Because she says he looks too skinny.

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

3. What happens to the first guard to make Sombo come to replace him?
(a) He runs away into the jungle.
(b) He falls asleep at his post one time and is never seen again.
(c) He eats too much rotten food and contracts a blood disease.
(d) He goes on leave to get married.

4. When another child captive tells on Arn for lying to increase his number of work breaks, what do the Khmer Rouge soldiers impose as Arn's punishment?
(a) He is forced to burn his uniform.
(b) He is forced to sleep in a pile of manure for three nights.
(c) He is tied to a tree and chastised by the other child captives.
(d) He is refused food for three days.

5. What are the two forms of compensation that the news bearer accepts in return for news about the captives' families?
(a) Feathers for his pillow and food.
(b) Lumps of sugar and figs.
(c) Sex and food.
(d) Musical performances and food.

6. Who tells Arn's aunt about Arn and Munny seeing the American movie?
(a) Sojeat.
(b) Munny.
(c) Sophea.
(d) Mali.

7. When the high-ranking soldiers for whom the band played has taken their leave, what is NOT a rule put in place by the remaining Khmer Rouge soldiers?
(a) Now no one can hunt for their own food.
(b) Now no one is allowed to speak to the soldiers for any reason.
(c) Now no one is allowed to fall in love.
(d) Now the band has to play at nighttime meetings so that all of the kids can learn the words to the songs.

8. What do the Khmer Rouge soldiers lack that makes the soldiers associated with the Prince doubt their power?
(a) Boots.
(b) Homogeneous uniforms.
(c) Guns.
(d) Grenades.

9. When the Khmer Rouge evacuate all of the cities in order to force everyone into agricultural work, how many days do they tell the villagers they will be gone?
(a) 10 days.
(b) 14 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 5 days.

10. When the five-year-old boy that reminds Arn of his little brother sneaks out night after night, returning only in the morning, what does Arn eventually find out he is doing?
(a) He is attacking the Khmer Rouge soldiers from the jungle.
(b) He is climbing trees to eat the fruit.
(c) He is eating dead people's flesh in the mango grove.
(d) He is stealing rice from the kitchen.

11. When Sophea shows up at the camp, what reason does she give for their aunt sending her to look for Arn?
(a) Their aunt wants him to come home to their old village.
(b) Their aunt hopes that he can come join them at their camp.
(c) Their aunt hopes that he has food for them.
(d) Their aunt wants him to take care of Sophea at his camp.

12. In what country is Arn's hometown?
(a) Cambodia.
(b) India.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) Thailand.

13. In order to add to his fame even more and thus add to his probability of survival, Arn adds what talent to his repertoire in addition to his playing of the khim?
(a) Playing the fiddle.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Acting out theater scenes.
(d) Storytelling.

14. 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 young U.S. President's widow, Jackie Kennedy.
(c) The first lady of the United States.
(d) The Prince of Cambodia's daughter.

15. Where do Arn and Munny go after the American movie to play a pretend game of war?
(a) The mango grove.
(b) The soccer field.
(c) The town square.
(d) The park.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the new music teacher give Arn as the reason that he does not care whether he lives or dies?

2. Why does Arn at first hesitate to volunteer when a high-ranking Khmer Rouge soldier asks who wants to play music in a band within the camp?

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

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

5. What happens to the old man who is Arn's first music teacher?

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