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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event causes Arn to sneak out and plead with the new music teacher to start exerting effort in his teaching?
(a) A Khmer Rouge guard asks Arn how the band is progressing and whether the new music teacher has a good or a bad character.
(b) Arn realizes that though he can play and teach all of the instruments to the other children, he wants a father figure to be their leader.
(c) Arn has taken a genuine interest in the musical arts and wants to do anything he can to fuel his new passion.
(d) Arn knows that the new music teacher is a friend of his mother's and so he wants to preserve the teacher's life.

2. The boy who runs away from camp and escapes amidst a flurry of gunfire by the Khmer Rouge is a former boyfriend of which of Arn's siblings?
(a) Sophea.
(b) Munny.
(c) Jorami.
(d) Mali.

3. Why do Arn's sister and aunt break down crying when Arn gives them a treat?
(a) They don't like the treat he gives them.
(b) They are worried that he steals to get money.
(c) They wish he had gotten enough to give every member of the family a treat.
(d) They feel sorry for him that he has to use his earnings to provide for his family.

4. Though the Khmer Rouge blame the bad rice harvest on the laziness of the workers, Arn knows it is actually due to what reason?
(a) The soil has been planted too many times with no rest.
(b) The monsoons have submerged the rice for too long and it has been unable to grow effectively.
(c) Substandard rice seed was used.
(d) Villagers have crept into camp in the night and have stolen rice.

5. 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) Musical performances and food.
(d) Feathers for his pillow and food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Arn give for it being a dangerous act for him to think about his sister or any of his other family members?

2. What dance do Arn and Munny perform for the crowd outside the theater?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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