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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 is it about Arn that makes the soldier let him go without even a warning when he is caught sneaking to Mek's tent in the night?
(a) His decision to stand up to the soldier and not allow himself to be controlled.
(b) His fame as a khim player.
(c) His smile.
(d) His kind words about the soldier's sister.

2. What causes Arn to think that finally the Khmer Rouge may have won the metaphorical battle between himself and the soldiers?
(a) He can no longer remember the faces of his family members.
(b) He loses his appetite and feels that even if he were given an entire meal, he would refuse to eat it.
(c) He realizes that he wants to please the soldiers more than he wants to stay alive.
(d) He thinks that he'd rather see any other child in the camp die than to die himself.

3. What is the stringed instrument called that Arn learns to play in the band?
(a) Dulcimer.
(b) Khim.
(c) Viola.
(d) Harpsichord.

4. What happens to the first guard to make Sombo come to replace him?
(a) He eats too much rotten food and contracts a blood disease.
(b) He runs away into the jungle.
(c) He falls asleep at his post one time and is never seen again.
(d) He goes on leave to get married.

5. When the Khmer Rouge soldiers take all of the captives' clothes and burn them, what clothing do they provide instead?
(a) Black uniforms.
(b) Red uniforms.
(c) Green uniforms.
(d) Yellow uniforms.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What event precipitates the band members being fed real rice and being forced to practice their music all night long?

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?

(see the answer key)

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