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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. What type of farm did the boys ravage for awhile because they were so hungry?
(a) Maize.
(b) Rice.
(c) Sweet potato.
(d) Cassava.

2. In Chapter 5, what did the boy's mother that they stole from give the six boys later?
(a) Cassava.
(b) Rice.
(c) Okra soup.
(d) Corn.

3. What did a man feed the boys in Chapter 9 after they damaged their feet?
(a) Maize and corn.
(b) Fried-fish soup and rice.
(c) Coconut and rice.
(d) Cassava and yams.

4. What food did an old man offer Ishmael and the other boys in Chapter 8?
(a) Bananas.
(b) Yams.
(c) Cassava.
(d) Rice.

5. How old was Kanei, one of the boys, Ishmael encountered in Chapter 8?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 13.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, how many days did Ishmael walk from dawn to dusk and see no one?

2. In Chapter 5, why did the old man say that he left the village?

3. How many bodies were near the old man on a verandah in Chapter 4?

4. In Chapter 7, how many homes were burned?

5. In Chapter 9 at the fisherman's hut, which of the boys boasted about being an excellent soccer player?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Ishmael leave home in 1993?

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

3. How did Ishmael describe being hungry?

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

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

6. In Chapter 7, what food did Ishmael find as he walked away from the Kamator area?

7. How did the iman die in Chapter 7?

8. Why didn't Ishmael's best friend leave home with Ishmael and the others at the beginning of the book?

9. In Chapter 4, what did the boys find at Khalilou's house?

10. What words did Ishmael remember his father saying that kept him moving?

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