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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Arn do with the food the kitchen girl gives him after she is done using him for her pleasure?
(a) He puts it aside in case he sees his family again.
(b) He gives it to the Khmer Rouge leader with the white shorts.
(c) He throws it on the ground and stomps on it.
(d) He gives it to Siv or Kha or Mek.

2. 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) 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.
(c) 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.
(d) Arn's tears of frustration after each session and his anger when he is telling Mek about her actions.

3. Sophea brings news that someone in Arn's family has died while calling out for him. Who is it?
(a) Their sister Jorami.
(b) Their brother Munny.
(c) Their mother.
(d) Their sister Mali.

4. Why does the kitchen girl give Arn extra food?
(a) Because he threatens to hurt her if she does not.
(b) Because he has become famous from playing his kihm and she admires him.
(c) Because she is a member of the Khmer Rouge and realizes that he needs strength in order to do his job and play music well.
(d) Because she says he looks too skinny.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What instructions does Arn's sister give him when he is able to sneak out to see her in the night?

2. When another child captive tells on Arn for lying to increase his number of work breaks, what do the Khmer Rouge soldiers impose as Arn's punishment?

3. What does the new music teacher give Arn as the reason that he does not care whether he lives or dies?

4. While the captives subsist on tiny amounts of rice and garbage, what do the Khmer Rouge eat?

5. 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?

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