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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) A goat.
(b) A pig.
(c) A chicken.
(d) A horse.

3. When a new letter carrier arrives to bring news to the camp, what news does he bring to Arn?
(a) He tells Arn that his mother is alive and is living in a nearby camp.
(b) He tells Arn that his sister Jorami has escaped with another boy from their home village.
(c) He tells Arn that his aunt has died of starvation.
(d) He tells Arn that his older sister Chantou has died of sickness.

4. How did Arn's father die?
(a) In a motorcycle accident.
(b) In a battle near their village.
(c) In the hospital while suffering from malaria.
(d) In a stage accident during an opera performance.

5. 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 theater where they had seen the movie earlier that night.
(d) In the branches of a nearby Banyan tree.

6. What is the event that first causes Arn to think maybe the Khmer Rouge have evil intentions?
(a) He sees a soldier speaking roughly to a monk at his temple school.
(b) Hi sister tells him that all of the girls in the village are being rounded up by the soldiers in order to force the girls to cut their hair short.
(c) A soldier sees Arn selling his wares on the street and tips over his cart for no apparent reason.
(d) He sees a soldier kill a boy when the boy refuses his request for a motorcycle ride.

7. 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 run to buy his wares.
(c) They spit on him.
(d) They push over his cart in the gutter.

8. Why do Arn and his siblings live with their aunt?
(a) Because their mother was overcome with grief after their father died and said she had to leave the family.
(b) Because their mother is dead.
(c) Because after their father's death, their mother had to go far away to find work.
(d) Because their aunt is rich and can take better care of a large family than their mother can.

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

10. 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 their families are in danger but that they cannot tell them why until they all congregate together for a meeting.
(b) 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.
(c) They tell them that a large supply of food has just been flown in by the Americans.
(d) They tell them that the prince has just arrived at the airport and that they should come welcome him back home.

11. What does the new music teacher give Arn as the reason that he does not care whether he lives or dies?
(a) He has had malaria for months and it has robbed him of his energy.
(b) His true passion is for the theater arts, so he is disappointed that he is being forced to teach music instead.
(c) His children are all dead and he does not know where his wife is.
(d) His passion for music has been twisted by the war into something ugly and he can no longer bear to teach it to others.

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

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 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.

14. 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 has taken a genuine interest in the musical arts and wants to do anything he can to fuel his new passion.
(c) 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.
(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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Though the Khmer Rouge blame the bad rice harvest on the laziness of the workers, Arn knows it is actually due to what reason?

3. When Sophea shows up at the camp, what reason does she give for their aunt sending her to look for Arn?

4. When some new children arrive at the camp and one of them refuses to cut her hair, how is she punished?

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

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