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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Playing the fiddle.
(b) Storytelling.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Acting out theater scenes.

3. 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.

4. What is the event that first causes Arn to think maybe the Khmer Rouge have evil intentions?
(a) A soldier sees Arn selling his wares on the street and tips over his cart for no apparent reason.
(b) He sees a soldier kill a boy when the boy refuses his request for a motorcycle ride.
(c) 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.
(d) He sees a soldier speaking roughly to a monk at his temple school.

5. How old is Arn when the novel's narrative first begins?
(a) 9.
(b) 13.
(c) 14.
(d) 11.

6. 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 band members from running away into the jungle.
(c) To cover the sound of skulls being cracked as the Khmer Rouge murder captives.
(d) To keep the spirits of the soldiers high.

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

8. What does Arn say that convinces the new music teacher to make more of an effort to teach the children?
(a) Arn tells him that soon the band will become famous across the country if he does.
(b) Arn tells him that every child in the band will be killed if he does not.
(c) Arn tells him that he'll be killed if he does not.
(d) Arn tells him that the music is crucial to keeping up the morale of the field workers.

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

10. 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 attacking the Khmer Rouge soldiers from the jungle.
(c) He is stealing rice from the kitchen.
(d) He is climbing trees to eat the fruit.

11. What causes Arn to think that finally the Khmer Rouge may have won the metaphorical battle between himself and the soldiers?
(a) He realizes that he wants to please the soldiers more than he wants to stay alive.
(b) He can no longer remember the faces of his family members.
(c) He thinks that he'd rather see any other child in the camp die than to die himself.
(d) He loses his appetite and feels that even if he were given an entire meal, he would refuse to eat it.

12. When Sophea shows up at the camp, what reason does she give for their aunt sending her to look for Arn?
(a) Their aunt hopes that he has food for them.
(b) Their aunt hopes that he can come join them at their camp.
(c) Their aunt wants him to come home to their old village.
(d) Their aunt wants him to take care of Sophea at his camp.

13. 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 passion for music has been twisted by the war into something ugly and he can no longer bear to teach it to others.
(c) His true passion is for the theater arts, so he is disappointed that he is being forced to teach music instead.
(d) His children are all dead and he does not know where his wife is.

14. 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) Jorami.
(b) Sophea.
(c) Munny.
(d) Mali.

15. 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 fall in love.
(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 speak to the soldiers for any reason.
(d) Now no one can hunt for their own food.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Khmer Rouge soldiers take all of the captives' clothes and burn them, what clothing do they provide instead?

2. From where does Chantou send Arn a letter?

3. What do the rich kids do to Arn when he is selling his wares near the school?

4. What does Arn do with the lump of sugar the kitchen girl gives him after she is done with him?

5. When the Khmer Rouge evacuate all of the cities in order to force everyone into agricultural work, how many days do they tell the villagers they will be gone?

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