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Unit Test: ===Long Way Gone group, This is an okay start; I'm glad you're using wikispaces and that you've been working on this recently. You really need to increase the challenge level of these questions. Your questions are about very particular details, which is okay. But what about the bigger issues? Deep ideas? Let's think about author's purpose, character motivation, major conflict, themes, etc. Consider starting some your questions with "Which of the following most/least describes...." or "All of the following are reasons that/theme statements/whatever except...."Let me know if you need help. Mr. T. ===

Multiple Choice Section a. Africa b. Canada c. Israel d. Indonesia The answer is a.
 * 1) Where is Sierra Leone?

2. Who were the boys running from? a. Tutsi's b. Rebels c. Indians d. French The answer is b.

3. Where was Ishmael when his village was invaded? a. Church b. School c. Home d. In his garden The answer is b.

4. What kind of music does he listen to? a. Country b. Reggae c. Rap d. Hip Hop The answer is d.

5. How often did Ismael say his uncle was going to visit? a. once a month b. every weekend c. once in a blue moon d. on the holidays The answer is b.

6. Who is Junior? a. Ishmael's brother b. Mohammad's brother c. Ishmael's uncle d. Mohammad's dad The answer is a.

7. What is brown brown? a. gunpowder and cocaine b. medicine c. dirt and powder d. brown baby powder The answer is a

8. Who rescues Ishmael from the war? a. USA b. UNICEF c. NAACP c. NASA The answer is b.

9. How many people does the grenade kill in rehab that Ishmael sets off? a. 2 b. 6 c. 13 c. 5 The answer is b

10. When does Ishmael leave Freetown? a. October b. January c. March d. December The answer is a.

11. Who were the 4 boys mainly up against? a. rebels b. capulets c. dingos d. each other

12. Where was the story mainly taking place, what city? a. Brooklyn b. San Diego C. Washington d. Sierra Leone

13. How old was Ishmael at the beginning? a.13 b.12 c.10 d.16

14. What was the groups favorite music? a. classical b. rock c. rap d. jazz

15. What movie did the kids resemble themselves as? a. rocky b.alice in wonderland c. Rambo d. saving private ryan

16. Who dies first? a. Saide b. Ishmael c. Grandmother d. mom

17. Did Ishmael's Family die? a. no b. yes c. didn't say d.undecided

18. Who was Ishmael picked up by when he was 13? a. rebels b. navy c. brothers d. government army

19. How old were some of the rebels a. 10/20 b. 20/30 c. 30/40 d. 40/50 20. What was the setting? a. Africa b. Asia c. Boston d. Delaware

Matching Section:

(Match the events in order.) Short Answer Section
 * Ishmael and his friends walk to the village.
 * They find there family's.
 * Ishmael gets lost in the forest.
 * Ishmael village gets attacked by the rebels and gets burnt down.
 * Ishmael leaves his friend in the swamp and goes to try and find his family.

1. Explain the significance of the title "A Long Way Gone" 2. Why didn't the boy drop his stuff and run if the rebels spotted him? 3. Why would Ishmael kill people if he was in rehab? 4. Is "A Long Way Gone" a appropriate title of this book? 5. Do you think rehabilitation was helpful for the boys? 6. Do you think Ishmael ever took revenge or got over Saidu's death? 7. Why do they keep comparing the war they were in to Rambo?

Steven Parenti - Essential Questions and Answers 1. Ishmael Beah and his friends were going to sing and dance to rap music at a talent show when the rebels attacked and changed his life. Infer how the rap music saved his life. Ishmael lives in a village without many high tech things, but he loves to listen to rap music. This saves his life when he is on the run from the rebels. Many villages that are left are scared of boys because many boys are rebels. When Ishmael and his friends are captured by the men in a village, the rap music saves their lives. It proves that they are just boys and not rebels. Rap music also helped Ishmael when he is at the rehabilitation center because he starts to write down lyrics to songs as part of his recovery. It saves him from too many bad dreams about killing and lets him remember his life before the rebels attacked his village. 2. The Sierra Leone soldiers gave the boys drugs and watched Rambo movies over and over again. Decide why they did this. The Sierra Leone soldiers give Ishmael and the other boys drugs after they decide to be soldiers because the adult soldiers thought it would help them kill better. They also thought that it would make them braver and less afraid. They like to watch Rambo movies because the movies are about a tough guy who fights bad people. It makes the boys want to be like Rambo and save the day. This reminds me of propaganda, like in Animal Farm. The soldiers make the boys feel that they need to fight the rebels to get revenge on their families who were killed. 3. As a child soldier Ishmael Beah and his friends killed many rebels and saw many terrible things happen. Compare Sierra Leone soldiers to American soldiers who are fighting in Iraq. Sierra Leone soldiers and American soldiers are alike because they both fight in a war against rebels who are trying to kill them. Sierra Leone soldiers make boys fight with them, but American soldiers are adults. All the soldiers probably feel that it’s “kill or be killed”, and I think they all feel bad when the war is over for the awful things they saw. I believe that both kinds of soldiers can be rehabilitated and go back to being a regular citizen after the war. 4. Ishmael is told by the staff members at Benin House “This isn’t your fault, you know. It really isn’t.” Justify why he doesn’t believe them. Ishmael doesn’t believe the people who are helping him, because he has lived every day killing people for two years. After the war started everybody afraid of him and his friends because they thought that he was a rebel. He decided to be a soldier instead of running away from the rebels, and now he feels that it is his fault for all the terrible things he did as a soldier. He doesn’t know what to think and won’t believe the counselors. 5. Ishmael was rehabilitated after many months of therapy. Some of his friends went back to being a soldier again. Predict what would happen if Ishmael became a soldier again. I believe that Ishmael would be killed if he went back to being a soldier again. He knew that it wasn’t his fault after he was rehabilitated. He didn’t want to be a soldier ever again, and that is why he ran away. If the Sobels caught him, he would either be shot by them for not wanting to be a soldier again, or he wouldn’t be a very good soldier and might be killed. Ishmael had stopped being cold hearted and didn’t use drugs anymore. He would be miserable as a soldier because he knows that revenge is bad now and wouldn’t want to kill more people. Literary Circle 10 Questions about the last section of the book 1. Choose the city that Ishmael lived in after he was repatriated?  a) Mattru Jong b) Yele c) Freetown d) New York City  Answer: c) Freetown

2. Cite how NYC is different from Freetown? Answer: NYC is cold in the winter, but Freetown is always warm. Buildings in Freetown are not as tall as the buildings in NYC. Most of the people have light skin in NYC, but most have dark skin in Freetown. 3. Give an example of the kind of food Ishmael likes to eat. Answer: rice, fish stew, cassava leaves soup or okra soup 4. Discuss why did the UN man kept smiling during Ishmael’s interview? Answer: Ishmael was right about being better at speaking about the war than the boys who didn’t experience being a soldier, and this made the interviewer happy to find a good person to do the job. 5. Ishmael tells the UN Council that “revenge is not good.” Retell a time when you got revenge on somebody? Answer: I don’t remember ever getting revenge on anybody, but sometimes my brother tries to annoy my sister after she annoys him. This usually gets my brother in trouble, so it is not a good idea. 6. Describe what Ishmael liked about NYC? Answer: Ishmael enjoyed meeting other kids who had similar problems in their country. He liked talking about his rehabilitation from soldier to kid again. 7. Interpret why the kids at school sat far away from Ishmael and Mohamed? Answer: The kids were afraid of Ishmael and Mohamed because they knew they had been soldiers. They were afraid that Ishmael and Mohamed might hurt them. 8. Translate the word “Sobel”? Sobel means soldiers and rebels. It is a slang work used to describe the Sierra Leone soldiers and RUF rebels who worked together to kill the President of Sierra Leone. 9. Sequence the events after Ishmael leaves Freetown?  a) Ishmael’s attends his Uncle’s Funeral b) Ishmael arrives at the embassy in Conakry c) Ishmael crosses the border into Guinea d) Sierra Leone Army kills President Tejan Kabbah Answer: d. a. c. b. 10. Interpret how the hunting story about the monkey relates to Ishmael’s problems? Answer:The hunting story has two bad endings. If you shoot the monkey then your mother dies and if you don’t shoot the monkey your father dies. Ishmael decides that he would shoot the monkey so that nobody else would have to have the same problem ever again. Ishmael’s family all dies because of the war, and he becomes a soldier that kills and does bad things. He wants to try to change the world and make the war end so that nobody ever has to become a child soldier.