A Long Way Gone Chapters 12-16

Describe the environment in Yele when Ishmael and the boys first arrive.

• Completely burned

• Peaceful

• desolate

• full of anger

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.1.1

What is Lieutenant Jabati reading?

• Shakespeare plays (Julius Caesar and MacBeth)

• 1984

• The Great Gatsby

• War and Peace

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

How exactly does Josiah die?

• Ishmael slits his throat

• Rebels shoot him in the head

• His backbone is crushed

• His heart gives out

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

Other than killing, what are the boys primary activities?

• Playing cards and doing drugs

• Playing war video games while high

• watching war movies and doing drugs

• drawing out strategies and doing drugs

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

How does Ishmael become a junior lieutenant?

• He kills the most during an ambush

• he wins a killing contest

• He has the best aim

• he goes without sleep for weeks

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

How long is Ishmael a child soldier?

• 4 years

• 1 year

• 18 months

• 2 years

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

What does Ishmael bring with him when he is rescued?

• His LL Cool J cassette

• New laces for his crapes

• a grenade

• a machete

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

What does Alhaji do as he begins recovery?

• punches a wall till his bone shows

• Sells drugs to the other boys

• steals Ishmael’s cassette tapes

• Has an affair with a nurse

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CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Ishmael remembers a particular difficult village to capture. What did he and his friends do to the prisoners?

• Cut off their feet

• Buried them alive

• burned them alive

• removed their teeth

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What do Ishmael and his friends do with the money they get?

• Hire a prostitute

• Buy drugs

• Buy a machete

• Go to Freetown

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.1.1