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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 wrapped in canvas and tossed high into the air for hours.
(d) She is required to sleep in the manure pile for three nights.

2. 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 decision to stand up to the soldier and not allow himself to be controlled.
(b) His smile.
(c) His fame as a khim player.
(d) His kind words about the soldier's sister.

3. 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) Former peasants and former city-dwellers.
(b) Cambodians and Vietnamese.
(c) Families with children and families without children.
(d) Males and females.

4. In order to add to his fame even more and thus add to his probability of survival, Arn adds what talent to his repertoire in addition to his playing of the khim?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Acting out theater scenes.
(c) Playing the fiddle.
(d) Storytelling.

5. What details does the author include to let the reader know that the kitchen girl's sexual molestation of Arn happens without his consent?
(a) The kitchen girl's threats to kill his family if he tells anyone and Arn's decision to turn the kitchen girl in for a transgression she didn't commit.
(b) Arn's tears of frustration after each session and his anger when he is telling Mek about her actions.
(c) The kitchen girl's announcement that she can kill Arn anytime she wants to and Arn's comment that the food she gives him afterward tastes like dust.
(d) Arn's secret plot to kill the kitchen girl before he escapes and the way in which he pretends to stab her when she turns her back.

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

7. 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?
(a) He says that he knew Arn's father before he was killed and that he feels a responsibility to take care of Arn.
(b) He says that he hates what the Khmer Rouge make him do to punish children who break the rules, so he tries not to turn them in if he can help it.
(c) He says that he has a special affinity for Arn because of his musical talent.
(d) He says that he was an orphan who was forced to steal in order to survive as well.

8. 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 horse.
(b) A goat.
(c) A chicken.
(d) A pig.

9. What dance do Arn and Munny perform for the crowd outside the theater?
(a) The Pony.
(b) The Watusi.
(c) The Swim.
(d) The Twist.

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

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

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

13. When the Khmer Rouge soldiers take all of the captives' clothes and burn them, what clothing do they provide instead?
(a) Black uniforms.
(b) Yellow uniforms.
(c) Red uniforms.
(d) Green uniforms.

14. 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) His mother during her opera heyday.
(c) The first lady of the United States.
(d) The young U.S. President's widow, Jackie Kennedy.

15. Arn eventually discovers the real reason that the band is asked to play at several specific times each day. What is the reason?
(a) To make the field workers dance at regular intervals to amuse the soldiers.
(b) To keep the spirits of the soldiers high.
(c) To keep the band members from running away into the jungle.
(d) To cover the sound of skulls being cracked as the Khmer Rouge murder captives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport do the rich kids play in the yard of their school in the first part of the book?

2. Why does the kitchen girl give Arn extra food?

3. 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?

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

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

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