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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 dance do Arn and Munny perform for the crowd outside the theater?
(a) The Pony.
(b) The Twist.
(c) The Swim.
(d) The Watusi.

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

3. When Chantou gets mad that Arn is working as a vendor, what is NOT something she says he should be doing instead?
(a) Doing schoolwork.
(b) Doing chores for the monks.
(c) Learning chants.
(d) Learning how to use a gun.

4. 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 mother is alive and is living in a nearby camp.
(c) He tells Arn that his aunt has died of starvation.
(d) He tells Arn that his sister Jorami has escaped with another boy from their home village.

5. Upon realizing that Arn is teasing him by putting a stone on his chest instead of the customary lump of sugar, Mek tells Arn that he has a treat for him. What is the treat?
(a) He hums an old Cambodian love song to Arn that is now illegal.
(b) He shows Arn a firefly he has trapped in a bottle.
(c) He gives Arn a piece of cornbread.
(d) He tells Arn a story about how his children used to tease him, too.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though the Khmer Rouge blame the bad rice harvest on the laziness of the workers, Arn knows it is actually due to what reason?

2. How does Arn find out unequivocally that the government soldiers who answered the Khmer Rouge's call to go to the airport were subsequently murdered?

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

4. What lesson does Arn learn from his experience getting told on by another boy in the camp?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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