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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 throws it into the jungle.
(c) He gives it to Kha.
(d) He sneaks into Mek's tent and shares it with him.

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

4. From where does Chantou send Arn a letter?
(a) From an opera house in Thailand.
(b) From their home village.
(c) From a mountain camp.
(d) From her adoptive parents' home in America.

5. 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 embark on a tour of the agricultural fields in order to entertain the workers.
(d) They are put into the back of a truck and driven around for hours in order to disorient them.

6. 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 starling.
(c) A hummingbird.
(d) A swallow.

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

8. 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 yell at Arn to go away and threaten to hurt his family.
(c) They mercilessly beat one of Arn's friends when Arn's team wins.
(d) They put their guns down and engage in a real enjoyment of the game.

9. The morning just before the Khmer Rouge drive through the village making announcements on their bullhorns, what sounds are noticeably absent?
(a) The sound of monks chanting and the sound of the temple gong.
(b) The sound of children laughing and the sound of vendors selling their wares.
(c) The sound of birds chirping and the sound of the wind in the trees.
(d) The sound of gunfire and the sound of explosions.

10. How does Arn find out unequivocally that the government soldiers who answered the Khmer Rouge's call to go to the airport were subsequently murdered?
(a) His little brother sneaks away to the airport and comes back to report to Arn what he's seen.
(b) He sees their bodies during the mass exodus from the village.
(c) The Khmer Rouge soldiers drive through town announcing the murders they've committed.
(d) His friend's high-ranking father was shot.

11. The boy who runs away from camp and escapes amidst a flurry of gunfire by the Khmer Rouge is a former boyfriend of which of Arn's siblings?
(a) Mali.
(b) Jorami.
(c) Sophea.
(d) Munny.

12. How do Arn and his little brother Munny get in to see the American movie?
(a) They borrow money from their older sister, Jorami.
(b) They hide behind the skirts of a large paying customer.
(c) They beg for money outside the theater.
(d) They sneak in through the back door exit.

13. When some new children arrive at the camp and one of them refuses to cut her hair, how is she punished?
(a) She is put inside a drum on the temple steps as they beat it and light a fire under it.
(b) She is denied any food besides grass for weeks.
(c) She is required to sleep in the manure pile for three nights.
(d) She is wrapped in canvas and tossed high into the air for hours.

14. What reason does Arn give for it being a dangerous act for him to think about his sister or any of his other family members?
(a) Because Mek is jealous of Arn's feelings about his family.
(b) Because the Khmer Rouge can see inside his head.
(c) Because getting his hopes up for a reunion with his family is a waste of time.
(d) Because it makes him angry at them for letting this happen.

15. What do the rich kids do to Arn when he is selling his wares near the school?
(a) They throw stones at him.
(b) They spit on him.
(c) They run to buy his wares.
(d) They push over his cart in the gutter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Arn describe the monks at the temple school?

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

3. What event causes Arn to sneak out and plead with the new music teacher to start exerting effort in his teaching?

4. What occurs in the American movie that causes Arn and Munny to hide their faces in their shirts?

5. What does Arn say that convinces the new music teacher to make more of an effort to teach the children?

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