A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Test | Final Test - Hard

Ishmael Beah
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 127 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Test | Final Test - Hard

Ishmael Beah
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 127 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10 when the boys left the village that had been so kind to them, what did they carry?

2. In Chapter 10, what did men catch during a hunt?

3. n Chapter 15, how long had Ishmael been fighting?

4. When Ishmael was a junior lieutenant, how many boys were in his unit?

5. How did Alhaji react when he had withdrawal symptoms?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the purpose of Ishmael's unit when he was a junior lieutenant?

2. When Esther and Leslie took Ishmael and Alhaji to the city for Ishmael's examination, what presents were bought for the boys?

3. What did Saidu say about death?

4. Who did Ishmael meet as they approached the village where his family might have been staying?

5. How did Josiah die?

6. After UNICEF came to take them, why were the boys allowed to wander aimlessly about their new environment the first week they were there?

7. What did Ishmael and the others do in the daytime in Chapter 14?

8. What happened to the boy's meat in the peculiar village?

9. How was Ishmael's foot injured?

10. What would the boys and soldiers do in Chapter 14 if they ran out of food, drugs, ammunition, and gasoline?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapters 7-9, Ishmael experienced kindness and hostility. Did Ishmael experience more kindness or more hostility?

Essay Topic 2

The boys discussed how they lost their families. How did the loss of their families make the boys who they were and caused them to band together?

Essay Topic 3

Ishmael and the boys first found safety and then war in Yele. Why was Yele the beginning of the loss of the boys' childhood?

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