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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was slaughtered to eat for Ishmael's name-giving ceremony?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Deer.
(c) Cow.
(d) Pig.

2. When Ishmael was a junior lieutenant, how many boys were in his unit?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

3. Near the end of Chapter 14, when might the boys leave for war?
(a) In the middle of a movie.
(b) While eating.
(c) While playing.
(d) While studying.

4. What did Ishmael think he could hear at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) Father's voice.
(b) Mother's voice.
(c) Lansana's singing.
(d) Grandmother's singing.

5. In Chapter 14, what did the boys eat as they followed a path?
(a) Bananas and oranges.
(b) Sardines and corned beef.
(c) Rice and fish.
(d) Smoked meat and cassava.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ishmael perform at a talent show in Chapter 18?

2. What did a nurse give Ishmael at the beginning of Chapter 17?

3. In Chapter 12, when Ishmael and the others were captured at gunpoint, how many men were on the ground with uniforms soaked in blood?

4. What little did Ishmael know about his uncle who lived in Freetown?

5. When were the heaviest rainfalls in Sierra Leone?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the boys act as their war memories began to return?

2. How did Josiah die?

3. What was it like in Yele when the boys first arrived?

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

5. How was Ishmael's foot injured?

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

7. What happy time was had in Chapter 10?

8. In Chapter 13, what happened that made Ishmael get in the fight?

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

10. What did Saidu say about death?

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