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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 after their father's death, their mother had to go far away to find work.
(c) Because their mother is dead.
(d) Because their aunt is rich and can take better care of a large family than their mother can.

2. How does Arn describe the monks at the temple school?
(a) He says they are kind but that they make the children work all the time.
(b) He says they are hard to communicate with since they've taken a vow of silence.
(c) He says they are corrupt and secretly take bribes from government officials.
(d) He says they are mean and that they make the children work all the time.

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

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

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) Sex and food.
(c) Musical performances and food.
(d) Lumps of sugar and figs.

6. 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 eating dead people's flesh in the mango grove.
(b) He is stealing rice from the kitchen.
(c) He is attacking the Khmer Rouge soldiers from the jungle.
(d) He is climbing trees to eat the fruit.

7. Why does the kitchen girl give Arn extra food?
(a) Because he has become famous from playing his kihm and she admires him.
(b) 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.
(c) Because he threatens to hurt her if she does not.
(d) Because she says he looks too skinny.

8. 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 the prince has just arrived at the airport and that they should come welcome him back home.
(d) They tell them that a large supply of food has just been flown in by the Americans.

9. 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 older sister Chantou has died of sickness.
(b) He tells Arn that his aunt has died of starvation.
(c) He tells Arn that his mother is alive and is living in a nearby camp.
(d) He tells Arn that his sister Jorami has escaped with another boy from their home village.

10. What is the stringed instrument called that Arn learns to play in the band?
(a) Viola.
(b) Khim.
(c) Harpsichord.
(d) Dulcimer.

11. What occurs in the American movie that causes Arn and Munny to hide their faces in their shirts?
(a) Displays of wealth like shiny new cars.
(b) Kissing.
(c) Bloody battle scenes.
(d) A villain looking into the camera.

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

13. What does Arn do with the food the kitchen girl gives him after she is done using him for her pleasure?
(a) He gives it to Siv or Kha or Mek.
(b) He throws it on the ground and stomps on it.
(c) He gives it to the Khmer Rouge leader with the white shorts.
(d) He puts it aside in case he sees his family again.

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

15. What product does Arn skip school to sell, much to the chagrin of his older sister?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Bowls of rice.
(d) Ice cream.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When Chantou gets mad that Arn is working as a vendor, what is NOT something she says he should be doing instead?

4. What is Arn's solution for helping Siv remember not to hold the flag in front of Arn's face at the end of the dance?

5. Who is in the picture that Arn hangs on his bedroom wall at the beginning of the novel?

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