Essay Audience and Author's Message Quiz

Who is the most likely intended audience for this essay?

• School principals and administrators

• Foster parents of war orphans

• Fellow Sierra Leonean child soldiers

• Americans or Westerners in general

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Read these sentences from paragraph 9: "It was a chance at living again, because all I had come to know, since I was eleven, was how to survive. I didn’t know how to live." The author’s word choice in these sentences emphasizes the idea that —

• he was forced to become a soldier as a child

• he was able to take advantage of certain stereotypes

• he was forced to grow up quickly in Sierra Leone

• he was able to succeed as an immigrant to the United States

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Which sentence best conveys the author’s intended message in paragraph 17?

• Significant cultural differences exist between Sierra Leone and the United States.

• Bureaucracies sometimes enforce regulations at the expense of people in need.

• Americans have difficulty comprehending the horrors endured in war-torn places like Sierra Leone.

• War inflicts emotional scars on people that time may be slow to heal.

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Choose the word or phrase that best uses an adverbial clause to replace the underlined section in the sentence below. At the beginning of the story, I imagined Ishmael and his new adoptive mother laughing like my mom and I do.

• together

• for a very long time

• until tears came out of their eyes

• correct as is

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Words and phrases such as humongous or weirded out help establish the author’s personality, or —

• tone

• voice

• purpose

• message

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What tone or attitude is suggested in the quoted text in paragraph 26 and the explanation that follows?

• Confusion

• Persistence

• Confidence

• Resentment

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Which word has a more positive connotation than the word weird as it is used in paragraph 26?

• Remarkable

• Peculiar

• Strange

• Irregular

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Which word best matches the connotative meaning of the word "macho" as it is used in paragraph 60?

• Aggressive

• Powerful

• Determined

• Boastful

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Label the items in the order in which they appear in the text. The first item will be labeled 1, and the last will be labeled 4.

• School officials cannot relate to the trials of Beah, a former child soldier.

• Having been at actual war for his life, Beah excels at paintball.

• Beah describes his childhood in Sierra Leone.

• Beah learns that the bravado of young Americans is false.

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In which two of Ishmael Beah’s experiences in New York does he carry himself like a soldier?

• In the airport upon arrival

• When strangers walk by

• When the boys go rollerblading

• On a weekend trip upstate

• In his meetings with school principals

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