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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 5 days.
(b) 10 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 14 days.

2. How old is Arn when the novel's narrative first begins?
(a) 13.
(b) 9.
(c) 14.
(d) 11.

3. While the captives subsist on tiny amounts of rice and garbage, what do the Khmer Rouge eat?
(a) Grass, leaves, and clay.
(b) Chicken, fish, and lemongrass.
(c) Caviar, foie gras, and steak.
(d) Sardines, mussels, and clams.

4. What sport do the rich kids play in the yard of their school in the first part of the book?
(a) Volleyball.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Lacrosse.
(d) Soccer.

5. What is Arn's first reaction when a girl sitting next to him at dinner suddenly dies?
(a) He takes her bowl of rice and keeps on eating.
(b) He screams for help and is punished for his cries.
(c) He pushes her to floor to save the other children from having to look at her.
(d) He runs away into the jungle to be by himself for a while.

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

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

8. Once Arn and his group is allowed to stop walking and they form a camp, what two groups do the Khmer Rouge soldiers separate the captives into?
(a) Cambodians and Vietnamese.
(b) Males and females.
(c) Families with children and families without children.
(d) Former peasants and former city-dwellers.

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

10. What method does Mek, the new music teacher, tell Arn that he uses to survive?
(a) He watches the birds fly.
(b) He dreams.
(c) He composes music.
(d) He thinks about one hour at a time.

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

12. The Khmer Rouge tell the band that they are going on a trip and everyone is expecting to be killed. Instead, what happens?
(a) They go to a nearby village and are ordered to kill everyone living there.
(b) They are permitted to go the Thailand border to see if they can find their family members.
(c) They are put into the back of a truck and driven around for hours in order to disorient them.
(d) They embark on a tour of the agricultural fields in order to entertain the workers.

13. When Chantou gets mad that Arn is working as a vendor, what is NOT something she says he should be doing instead?
(a) Doing chores for the monks.
(b) Learning chants.
(c) Doing schoolwork.
(d) Learning how to use a gun.

14. 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 traveling performance for all the people who have resettled in their home villages since the evacuation.
(c) A performance for the Vietnamese soldiers.
(d) A performance for the American soldiers.

15. What event causes Arn to sneak out and plead with the new music teacher to start exerting effort in his teaching?
(a) Arn knows that the new music teacher is a friend of his mother's and so he wants to preserve the teacher's life.
(b) Arn realizes that though he can play and teach all of the instruments to the other children, he wants a father figure to be their leader.
(c) Arn has taken a genuine interest in the musical arts and wants to do anything he can to fuel his new passion.
(d) A Khmer Rouge guard asks Arn how the band is progressing and whether the new music teacher has a good or a bad character.

Short Answer Questions

1. After asking Sombo many times why he is permissive with Arn and overlooks his breaking of the rules, Sombo reveals the reason. What does he say is the reason?

2. 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?

3. Who tells Arn's aunt about Arn and Munny seeing the American movie?

4. What product does Arn skip school to sell, much to the chagrin of his older sister?

5. When the trucks of Khmer Rouge soldiers first arrive, what does the radio tell the Cambodian people to do?

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