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Shayla Bryant- Chapters 9-12 1) Identify the thunder exploding noise that the boys heard as they were crawling through the bush/ 2) What people was Ishmael with during this time? 3) Descrice how the group of boys were punished when they were caught by the firdt villagers along the beach. 4) Why do you believe that they weren't trusted during this time? 5) At what point does a twelve year old child become a danger? 6) What was Bra Spider? 7) Why was it important that Ishmael did a preformance to "OPP"? Use detail from the text to support your answer. 8) When would it be safe to trust your peers after a war like this one?

Steven Parenti - 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 2. Cite how NYC is different from Freetown? 3. Give an example of the kind of food Ishmael likes to eat. 4. Discuss why did the UN man keep smiling during Ishmael’s interview? 5. Ishmael tells the UN Council that “revenge is not good.” Retell a time when you got revenge on somebody? 6. Describe what Ishmael liked about NYC? 7. Interpret why the kids at school sat far away from Ishmael and Mohamed? 8. Translate the word “Sobel”? 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 10. Interpret how the hunting story about the monkey relates to Ishmael’s problems? __ Answers: __ 1. c) Freetown 2. 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. rice, fish stew, cassava leaves soup or okra soup 4. 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. 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. Ishmael enjoyed meeting other kids who had similar problems in their country. He liked talking about his rehabilitation from soldier to kid again. 7. 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. 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. d. a. c. b. 10. 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.