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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 Twist.
(b) The Swim.
(c) The Watusi.
(d) The Pony.

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?
(a) He has to cook for all of the children in the camp.
(b) He has to clean the area where the whole camp relieves themselves.
(c) He has to push the dead and dying into the mass grave in the mango grove.
(d) He has to take away the material belongings from the captives' tents and give them to the soldiers.

3. When the trucks of Khmer Rouge soldiers first arrive, what does the radio tell the Cambodian people to do?
(a) To run away as fast as they can and take nothing with them.
(b) To give the soldiers whatever they can and show that they support them.
(c) To learn how to use guns so that they may join the throng of soldiers.
(d) To do nothing and say nothing when the soldiers speak to them.

4. What do the Khmer Rouge soldiers lack that makes the soldiers associated with the Prince doubt their power?
(a) Boots.
(b) Guns.
(c) Homogeneous uniforms.
(d) Grenades.

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 tells Arn a story about how his children used to tease him, too.
(b) He hums an old Cambodian love song to Arn that is now illegal.
(c) He gives Arn a piece of cornbread.
(d) He shows Arn a firefly he has trapped in a bottle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Arn say that convinces the new music teacher to make more of an effort to teach the children?

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. 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?

4. When Sophea shows up at the camp, what reason does she give for their aunt sending her to look for Arn?

5. When the word "sleep" is banned by the Khmer Rouge, what word is allowed in its place?

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