Unit 1 Test: Honors 9th Grade Lit

What is the main character's talent?

• Finding things

• Art

• Singing

• being a loser

What is Mrs Allen's emerald called?

• Green apple

• Green beauty

• Green star

• Green Green

Where are the main character's parents?

• they died

• they are at work

• they left him with his aunt

• they are out of town

Which word matches this definition?

(v) to move quietly out of shame or fear

• slink

• knack

• uncanny

• medium

Which word matches this definition?

(n) an uncanny ability

• slink

• knack

• uncanny

• medium

Ishmael Beah is from which country?

• Africa

• Ivory Coast

• Sierra Leone

• Nigeria

Why did Ishmael have trouble finding a school to attend once he was in the United States?

• He could not pass the entrance exams.

• He had not attended school in his home country.

• He did not speak American English.

• He could not afford the tuition.

• He did not have a report card from his previous school.

What happened in Ishmael's country in the 1990's?

• It became an independent country.

• A war started in the country (civil war).

• The country experienced a natural disaster.

Why did Ishmael NOT tell his friends he was a soldier as a young boy?

• He was afraid they would not trust him and be afraid.

• He wanted to forget his time as a child soldier.

• His adoptive mother told him to be silent/quiet.

Which word matches this definition?

The reason the author has for writing

• author's purpose

• audience

• voice

• tone