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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 some new children arrive at the camp and one of them refuses to cut her hair, how is she punished?
(a) She is required to sleep in the manure pile for three nights.
(b) She is put inside a drum on the temple steps as they beat it and light a fire under it.
(c) She is wrapped in canvas and tossed high into the air for hours.
(d) She is denied any food besides grass for weeks.

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

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

4. 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 they will each be given a large sum of money if they go to the airport to help fix the runways.
(b) They tell them that the prince has just arrived at the airport and that they should come welcome him back home.
(c) They tell them that a large supply of food has just been flown in by the Americans.
(d) They tell them that their families are in danger but that they cannot tell them why until they all congregate together for a meeting.

5. 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 the band has to play at nighttime meetings so that all of the kids can learn the words to the songs.
(b) Now no one can hunt for their own food.
(c) Now no one is allowed to fall in love.
(d) Now no one is allowed to speak to the soldiers for any reason.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a new letter carrier arrives to bring news to the camp, what news does he bring to Arn?

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

3. What event causes Arn to wonder if he has become a monster just like the Khmer Rouge soldiers?

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 happens to the old man who is Arn's first music teacher?

Short Essay Questions

1. Before the arrival of the Khmer Rouge in his village, how does Arn feel about the war he knows is being fought outside his town and what does he spend most of his time doing?

2. What ploy do the Khmer Rouge use to get the government soldiers to come to the airport and what happens once they arrive?

3. How does the author use the juxtaposition between the kitchen girl's molestation of Arn and the comfort he then seeks within Mek's embrace? What is her purpose in using this juxtaposition?

4. What happens to the pregnant woman and her husband who are walking next to Arn within the mass exodus of all cities? What lesson does Arn learn from seeing what happens?

5. 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?

6. What is the significance of the escape from camp by the boy from Arn's village?

7. When Arn finally realizes the true purpose of the band's music, he is shocked and saddened. What is that purpose and how does it transform Arn's idea of the music he plays with the other members of the band under Mek's guidance?

8. 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?

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

10. 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?

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