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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Arn cope with his feelings when the Khmer Rouge kitchen girl sexually molests him?
(a) He lashes out and hits the kitchen girl.
(b) He disassociates by going somewhere else in his mind.
(c) He vows never to enter the kitchen again.
(d) He cries.

2. When a new letter carrier arrives to bring news to the camp, what news does he bring to Arn?
(a) He tells Arn that his older sister Chantou has died of sickness.
(b) He tells Arn that his aunt has died of starvation.
(c) He tells Arn that his sister Jorami has escaped with another boy from their home village.
(d) He tells Arn that his mother is alive and is living in a nearby camp.

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

4. Why does the kitchen girl give Arn extra food?
(a) 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.
(b) Because he threatens to hurt her if she does not.
(c) Because he has become famous from playing his kihm and she admires him.
(d) Because she says he looks too skinny.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the first guard to make Sombo come to replace him?

2. 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?

3. What event causes Arn to sneak out and plead with the new music teacher to start exerting effort in his teaching?

4. When the trucks of Khmer Rouge soldiers first arrive, what does the radio tell the Cambodian people to do?

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

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