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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 wants him to take care of Sophea at his camp.
(d) Their aunt hopes that he has food for them.

2. 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 sleep in a pile of manure for three nights.
(b) He is forced to burn his uniform.
(c) He is refused food for three days.
(d) He is tied to a tree and chastised by the other child captives.

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

4. What is it about Arn that makes the soldier let him go without even a warning when he is caught sneaking to Mek's tent in the night?
(a) His fame as a khim player.
(b) His kind words about the soldier's sister.
(c) His smile.
(d) His decision to stand up to the soldier and not allow himself to be controlled.

5. What reason does Arn give for not eating the human liver that the Khmer Rouge soldier forces him to cook?
(a) He does not eat it because he already has a belly full of rice and chicken that the kitchen girl had given him.
(b) He does not eat it because he wants to bring it back to the tent to give it to Kha instead.
(c) He does not eat it because he knows it came from a friend of his.
(d) He does not eat it because he thinks maybe the next time, another kitchen boy will be eating him instead.

6. How do the Khmer Rouge soldiers react when Arn asks them if they want to play soccer with him?
(a) They mercilessly beat one of Arn's friends when Arn's team wins.
(b) They yell at Arn to go away and threaten to hurt his family.
(c) They kick the ball with little skill and frown the whole time.
(d) They put their guns down and engage in a real enjoyment of the game.

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 is allowed to speak to the soldiers for any reason.
(b) Now the band has to play at nighttime meetings so that all of the kids can learn the words to the songs.
(c) Now no one is allowed to fall in love.
(d) Now no one can hunt for their own food.

8. 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 stealing rice from the kitchen.
(c) He is eating dead people's flesh in the mango grove.
(d) He is climbing trees to eat the fruit.

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

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

11. How do the Khmer Rouge trick the government soldiers into assembling together at the airport so that they can be killed more efficiently?
(a) They tell them that they will each be given a large sum of money if they go to the airport to help fix the runways.
(b) They tell them that the prince has just arrived at the airport and that they should come welcome him back home.
(c) They tell them that a large supply of food has just been flown in by the Americans.
(d) They tell them that their families are in danger but that they cannot tell them why until they all congregate together for a meeting.

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

13. 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 are put into the back of a truck and driven around for hours in order to disorient them.
(b) They embark on a tour of the agricultural fields in order to entertain the workers.
(c) They go to a nearby village and are ordered to kill everyone living there.
(d) They are permitted to go the Thailand border to see if they can find their family members.

14. What happens to the old man who is Arn's first music teacher?
(a) He retires from teaching and is allowed to go back to his family in a nearby camp.
(b) He escapes into the jungle in the middle of the night.
(c) The Khmer Rouge soldiers kill him and bury him in the mango grove once he is finished teaching Arn the required songs.
(d) He dies of exhaustion from the effort needed to help Arn learn the intricacies of his instrument.

15. When the trucks of Khmer Rouge soldiers first arrive, what does the radio tell the Cambodian people to do?
(a) To learn how to use guns so that they may join the throng of soldiers.
(b) To give the soldiers whatever they can and show that they support them.
(c) To do nothing and say nothing when the soldiers speak to them.
(d) To run away as fast as they can and take nothing with them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What details does the author include to let the reader know that the kitchen girl's sexual molestation of Arn happens without his consent?

3. How do Arn and his little brother Munny get in to see the American movie?

4. What event causes Arn to wonder if he has become a monster just like the Khmer Rouge soldiers?

5. What is Arn's first reaction when a girl sitting next to him at dinner suddenly dies?

(see the answer keys)

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