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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. How long did it take the boys to withdraw from the drugs in Chapter 16?
(a) 4 weeks.
(b) 12 weeks.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 3 months.

2. What folk tale did Musa tell in Chapter 10?
(a) The Gullah.
(b) Spider's Rope.
(c) Spider and the Hare.
(d) Bra Spider.

3. What was the lieutenant reading at the beginning of Chapter 13?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Julius Caeser.

4. When Ishmael was a junior lieutenant, how many boys were in his unit?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

5. What was slaughtered to eat for Ishmael's name-giving ceremony?
(a) Deer.
(b) Cow.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Pig.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What production had taken place at the place where there was one large house and a kitchen?

3. After Ishmael's unit captured a village in Chapter 16, how many days did it take Kanei and Moriba to get help?

4. Where were Ishmael and the other boys taken in Chapter 15?

5. Near the end of Chapter 14, when might the boys leave for war?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why didn't the boys carry food and water during their first fight in Chapter 13?

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

3. What was the purpose of Ishmael's unit when he was a junior lieutenant?

4. What was the extent of Ishmael's thoughts at the beginning of Chapter 15?

5. How did the boys act as their war memories began to return?

6. How was Ishmael's foot injured?

7. What did Saidu say about death?

8. What would the boys and soldiers do in Chapter 14 if they ran out of food, drugs, ammunition, and gasoline?

9. What did Ishmael and the others do in the daytime in Chapter 14?

10. Who did Ishmael meet as they approached the village where his family might have been staying?

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