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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Chantou gets mad that Arn is working as a vendor, what is NOT something she says he should be doing instead?
(a) Learning how to use a gun.
(b) Doing schoolwork.
(c) Doing chores for the monks.
(d) Learning chants.

2. What sport do the rich kids play in the yard of their school in the first part of the book?
(a) Lacrosse.
(b) Volleyball.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Soccer.

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

4. What are the two forms of compensation that the news bearer accepts in return for news about the captives' families?
(a) Lumps of sugar and figs.
(b) Sex and food.
(c) Feathers for his pillow and food.
(d) Musical performances and food.

5. 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 aunt is rich and can take better care of a large family than their mother can.
(d) Because their mother is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Arn and Munny hide when they hear the sounds of a nearby battle during their make-believe game of war?

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

5. What method does Mek, the new music teacher, tell Arn that he uses to survive?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the theme of generosity demonstrated in the scene when the children are finally fed rice in anticipation of their first performance for the Khmer Rouge soldiers?

2. When the evacuees are finally allowed to stop to set up camp in groups of around a thousand people each, what do Arn and his little sister Sophea discover about the Khmer Rouge's philosophies when they sneak around listening to the soldiers' conversations?

3. What is the author's purpose in including the character of the five-year-old child whom Arn finds feasting on the flesh of the dead?

4. When a soldier from Arn's home village comes to camp, what does he offer Arn in exchange for some rice and what does Arn learn as a result of accepting his offered deal?

5. When Arn's curiosity gets the better of him and he finally asks Sombo the reason for his permissiveness concerning Arn's behavior, what reasoning does Sombo provide and what is the author's purpose in portraying Sombo's character in this particular way?

6. When Arn sneaks out to tell Mek about the soldier who forced him to cook the liver of a murdered captive, he is caught by a soldier but does not suffer the dire consequences he is expecting. What happens instead and what significance does it hold for Arn?

7. What are the signs that lead Arn to think that perhaps the Mango Grove is a mass burial site used by the Khmer Rouge to inter their victims?

8. When a new mail carrier comes into camp, he shares some news with Arn. What part of the news does Arn doubt and what is the significance of this doubt?

9. How does Arn describe his village at the opening of the novel before the Khmer Rouge arrive?

10. Why do the Khmer Rouge burn everyone's clothes and all of their material belongings?

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