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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Sophea shows up at the camp, what reason does she give for their aunt sending her to look for Arn?
(a) Their aunt hopes that he has food for them.
(b) Their aunt wants him to come home to their old village.
(c) Their aunt hopes that he can come join them at their camp.
(d) Their aunt wants him to take care of Sophea at his camp.

2. How do the Khmer Rouge soldiers react when Arn asks them if they want to play soccer with him?
(a) They yell at Arn to go away and threaten to hurt his family.
(b) They kick the ball with little skill and frown the whole time.
(c) They mercilessly beat one of Arn's friends when Arn's team wins.
(d) They put their guns down and engage in a real enjoyment of the game.

3. What reason does Arn give for not eating the human liver that the Khmer Rouge soldier forces him to cook?
(a) He does not eat it because he thinks maybe the next time, another kitchen boy will be eating him instead.
(b) He does not eat it because he knows it came from a friend of his.
(c) He does not eat it because he already has a belly full of rice and chicken that the kitchen girl had given him.
(d) He does not eat it because he wants to bring it back to the tent to give it to Kha instead.

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

5. What does the new music teacher give Arn as the reason that he does not care whether he lives or dies?
(a) His passion for music has been twisted by the war into something ugly and he can no longer bear to teach it to others.
(b) His true passion is for the theater arts, so he is disappointed that he is being forced to teach music instead.
(c) His children are all dead and he does not know where his wife is.
(d) He has had malaria for months and it has robbed him of his energy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Why do Arn and his siblings live with their aunt?

4. What method does Mek, the new music teacher, tell Arn that he uses to survive?

5. 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?

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