WorksheetsALWG 17&18
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Who is Esther?
Ishmael's mother.
A nurse.
A counselor.
Ishmael's sister.
What gift does Esther give to Ishmael?
A Run DMC CD.
Candy.
Drugs.
A Walkman and cassette.
Why does Ishmael tell Esther about how he was shot?
He wants to be her friend.
He hopes that she'll understand him.
He wants to look tough.
He hopes she'll be afraid of him.
Ishmael has a flashback to an operation he had to take a bullet out of his foot during the war. What happens?
He dreams about his family for the first time.
He doesn't feel anything.
He feels everything because the drugs didn't take affect.
He becomes addicted to drugs.
What does Ishmael do to the rebels who had "shot him?"
He shoots them in the foot and watches them suffer.
He slits their throats.
He kills them immediately.
He burns them.
What happens when Ishmael tries to remember his childhood?
He becomes angry.
He can only remember the war.
It comforts him.
He misses his family.
Why does Esther keep the Bob Marley tape?
She's afraid that Ishmael will sell it.
So Ishmael will be mad at her.
She doesn't want Ishmael to enjoy anything.
So Ishmael will come back to see her for treatment.
What does Ishmael do to distract himself from his painful memories?
Memorizes Bob Marley lyrics.
Reads Shakespeare.
Dances to rap music.
Finds drugs and gets high.
What is significant about Ishmael's dream?
It causes he and Alhaji to fight.
It causes him to think that he's still fighting in the war.
It's the first time he's dreamt of his family since the war.
It's the last time he dreams of drugs.
Why does Ishmael start to believe Esther when she says, "It is not your fault?"
She speaks genuinely and looks at him like he is still a child.
She says it over and over again until he believes it.
She cries when she says it.
She treats him like it is not his fault.
Esther tells Ishmael to think of her as what?
His mother.
His sister.
His girlfriend.
His grandmother.
What does Ishmael do in the talent show?
Recites a monologue from Julius Caesar.
Performs a short hip hop play that he wrote with Esther.
All of the above.
None of the above.
What happens to Ishmael as a result of the talent show?
He is kicked out of Benin Home.
A famous rap artist asks him to perform with him in New York.
He is given a leading role in a Shakespeare play.
He becomes the spokesperson for Benin Home.
"Children have the resistance to outlive their suffering, if given a chance." Who says this?
Leslie
Esther
Ishmael
Mohammed
Leslie is not able to find any of Ishmael's immediate family, because they were all killed in the war. What does Ishmael tell him?
He wants to move to New York.
He thinks that his stepmother lives in the city.
He thinks that his Uncle Tommy lives in the city.
He wants to stay at Benin Home.
Why does Ishmael believe that the man who comes to the home is his uncle?
He looks like his father.
He is crying, and grown man don't cry.
He looks like Junior.
He remembers him from his childhood.
Ishmael remembers a story his father had told him about his uncle. When they were kids, his uncle and his dad were attacked by a swarm of bees that they led into the village.
True
False
How is Ismael greeted by Uncle Tommy's family?
Lovingly
Wariness
Fear
Hatred
Uncle Tommy has many children of his own, but he also raises the children of family members.
True
False
How does Ishmael feel about finding out about/meeting family that he never knew he had?
Upset that his father never told him about them.
Happy, and he can't help but smile all the time.
Upset because it makes him miss his immediate family.
Happy, but he doesn't show it.
