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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. Who tells Arn's aunt about Arn and Munny seeing the American movie?
(a) Sojeat.
(b) Munny.
(c) Sophea.
(d) Mali.

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

3. 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?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 10 days.
(c) 14 days.
(d) 3 days.

4. In what country is Arn's hometown?
(a) Cambodia.
(b) India.
(c) Thailand.
(d) Vietnam.

5. 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) Kissing.
(c) Bloody battle scenes.
(d) Displays of wealth like shiny new cars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Arn's father die?

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

3. What does Arn say that convinces the new music teacher to make more of an effort to teach the children?

4. When Arn is told by a Khmer Rouge soldier that he has a new job in addition to his job as a musician in the band, what does that new job turn out to be?

5. Which of the following is NOT a topic of the Khmer Rouge songs the children are taught to play with their musical instruments?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. How does Arn fix the problem of the new music teacher's apathy and what effect does this solution have on the band's members?

6. 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?

7. What do Arn and his little brother Munny do after they sneak in to see the American movie and what happens to make them hide?

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

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