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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 7, how many homes were burned?

2. In Chapter 8, how long did Ishmael spend in the forest before running into people again?

3. When the rebels took the boys to the village in Chapter 5, how many people were rounded up to watch?

4. How far apart did Ishmael's parents live?

5. In Chapter 4, when the boys and the other people who had entered the town together returned to the swamp, how many crossed at a time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the boys take with them when they went to Mattru Jong?

2. Why did Ishmael leave home in 1993?

3. Why did Ishmael's friends in Mattru Jong come home early from school?

4. How did the rebels send a message to the people of Mattru Jong in Chapter 3?

5. From whom did the boys steal food at the beginning of Chapter 5?

6. How did Ishmael decide to eat the fruit he found in the forest in Chapter 8?

7. In Chapter 7, why did Ishmael decide to leave the area around Kamator?

8. In Chapter 4, what did the boys see in Mattru Jong on a verandah?

9. How did the family of the person the boys stole from in Chapter 5 react?

10. How did a fisherman help Ishmael and the other boys he began traveling with in Chapter 9?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ishmael was tormented by memories of war. Why was Ishmael tormented by the memories, and how did he finally deal with them?

Essay Topic 2

Kamator was attacked. What did Ishmael lose physically and emotionally due to the attack?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 1, Ishmael, his brother, and a friend traveled to Mattru Jong. How did that journey save his life?

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