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

2. What would Ishmael do in Chapter 16 when he had migraines?
(a) Steal pills.
(b) Roll around on the floor.
(c) Fight.
(d) Bang his head on the wall.

3. Where was Jumah stationed in Chapter 15?
(a) Kenema.
(b) Bauya.
(c) Moyamba.
(d) Koidu.

4. During the battle in Chapter 13, who did Ishmael hear scream?
(a) Josiah.
(b) Sheku.
(c) Kanei.
(d) Jumah.

5. In Chapter 10, what did Saidu say he was doing?
(a) Dying slowly.
(b) Trying to cope.
(c) Just surviving.
(d) Looking for hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11, how many villages did the rebels say they burned that day?

2. In Chapter 16, what was the only things the boys would do that the civilians asked them to do?

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

4. Near the end of Chapter 14, when might the boys leave for war?

5. What time was the food ready for Ishmael's name-giving ceremony?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Ishmael's foot injured?

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

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. Why weren't Ishmael and the other boys killed when the village was attacked where his family was staying?

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

7. In Chapter 10, what was one of the most unsettling things about Ishmael's journey?

8. What did Saidu say about death?

9. How did Ishmael describe a place he called a very peculiar village?

10. What did Ishmael find infuriating at the beginning of Chapter 16?

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