A Long Way Gone

When was A Long Way Gone published?

• February 13th, 2007

• May 13th, 2007

• January 1st, 2001

• October 31st, 2020

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Is A Long Way Gone fiction or non-fiction

• Fiction

• Non-fiction

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What is the name of Ishmael’s hometown?

• Kamator

• Mogbwemo

• Freetown

• Cape Town

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The RUF sends a messenger to Mattru Jong. What was shocking about this messenger?

• He is blind

• He can't speak

• He is missing all his fingers except his thumb

• He can't stop screaming

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Ishmael and his friends make the trek back to Mattru Jong to buy food. What happens when they get to the village?

• No one will sell to them

• They buy bananas, but they are rotten

• They are captured by the rebels

• All the people in the town have been slaughtered

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What is the significance of the following passage in Chapter 8? 
"If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die." 

• Beah wants the reader to think he is wise like his grandfather.  

• Beah is reciting this adage as a way to spark hope and reassurance into his current state of loneliness and isolation.

• Beah is becoming delusional.

• Beah wants to inspire the wild animals by beginning to recite old proverbs he recalls from time spent with his grandfather.

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Ishmael’s father said a prayer that

• His family would always be together

• Junior would be a good warrior

• Ishmael would find a good wife

• They would never go hungry

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Who does Beah come into contact with after being alone for a month?

• His older brother Junior, and his friend Kaloko. 

• A group of girls whom Beah becomes interested in.

• A herd of wild hogs.

• Six boys who Beah recognizes from his past.

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What do the villagers take from Ishmael and his friends that makes them miserable and in

pain?

• their cassette tapes

• their food

• their shoes

• their medical supplies

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Who warns the boys to leave the hut immediately, as the village people were coming to capture them?

• The mother of their host. 

• Beah's older brother, Junior.

• The village chief. 

• Their host.

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