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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 14, what did the boys eat as they followed a path?

2. What would Ishmael do in Chapter 16 when he had migraines?

3. What would Ishmael's grandmother call him because of his tricks?

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

5. What did the older women call Ishmael at his name-giving ceremony?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was Ishmael's foot injured?

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

4. What happened to Mambu after Ishmael left the center?

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

6. What happened in January 1996?

7. How did Josiah die?

8. How did the boys get cash in Chapters 16-18?

9. How did Ishmael become a spokesman for Bennin Home?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Ishmael came a long way from the boy he was in Chapter 1, to the young man he was in Chapter 21. How was Ishmael a long way gone from who he was to who he became?

Essay Topic 3

At first war was just a distant rumor. How did war became real for Ishmael?

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