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A Long Way Gone ch. 15 and 16

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name

Class

Date

How long is Ishmael a child soldier?

4 years

2 years

18 months

1 year

What does Ishmael bring with him when he is rescued?

a grenade

his LL Cool J cassette

a machete

New laces for his crapes

Lieutenant Jabati quotes Shakespeare to Ishmael, saying, "____________ shall never be vanquished until great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him."

Hamlet

King Lear

Macbeth

Othello

Where does Ishmael go through the process of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration?

Freetown, Sierra Leone

New York, New York

Monrovia, Liberia

Conakry, Guinea

What was the consequence for trying to rehabilitate children fighters from the RUF and the Sierra Leonean Army in the same location?

They were able to reconcile their differences after many hours of peace, truth, and reconciliation meetings.

They rebelled against the process of demobilization, captured their UNICEF caretakers, and burned down the center.

They brutally fought each other, killing six people and wounding numerous others.

The UNICEF workers never attempted to rehabilitate children fighters from different sides of the war in the same location.

What phrase do the workers at Benin Home repeat to Ishmael and the other children over and over, especially after they react with violence and rage?

"Time heals all wounds."

"One love."

"May peace be with you."

"It's not your fault."

Why do the soldiers get in a physical altercation once they reach the rehabilitation center?

Beah and his friends were taught by their lieutenant to kill any and all rebels.

Beah missed killing and the option presented itself.

The rebels were taunting Beah and his friends.

Beah begins having flashbacks and this provokes him to attack.

"We fought for the RUF (rebels), the army is the enemy. We fought for freedom, and the army killed my family and destroyed my village" (133). What can the reader conclude after reading this passage?

Each side is under the impression that they are killing for justifiable reasons.

The rebels are liars and this is an example of such.

Beah has falsified this entire account. He is an unreliable narrator.

The rebels are trying to save themselves from being attacked.

Why do the boys continue fighting with the "civilians" even when they are safe in the Benin Home?

The boys are suffering from withdrawals.

The boys want to instill more fear into the civilians.

The boys are upset the civilians don't understand what war is really like and want to explain it to them.

They boys are trying to fit in.

10.

Why are Ishmael and his friends upset when the staff members smile even after the boys have injured them?

Ishmael and his friends want the staff members to fear them, as they are soldiers, not boys.

Ishmael doesn't like smiling because it reminds him of his family.

Ishmael and his friends don't accept happiness as a reasonable emotion.

Ishmael and his friends are in a perpetual state of loathing those who smile.

11.

Who does Ishmael begin warming up to?

The nurse.

The leader of the rebels.

The officer.

The doctor.

12.

"This isn't your fault, you know. It really isn't. You'll get through this."
Why do the staff members keep saying this to the boys?

The boys are incapable of understanding they were brainwashed, and shouldn't have been forced to kill.

The staff members are trying to ease their minds to help them sleep.

The staff members are terrified of being attacked.

The boys are being brainwashed again by the staff members.

13.

"I would try desperately to think about my childhood, but I couldn't. The war memories had formed a barrier that I had to break in order to think about any moment in my life before the war" (149). Why couldn't Ishmael recall his earlier years?

The trauma Ishmael has endured is working as a barrier that prevents him from recalling earlier memories.

Ishmael is scared to recall memories.

Ishmael was hit in the head and has lost most of his memories.

Ishmael no longer wants to think about the family and life he once had.

14.

When Beah gets chosen by the lieutenant to go with the UNICEF workers, he feels

Relieved to be leaving the fighting and starting a new life.

Angry and confused as to why he would be chosen when he was one of the best fighters

Excited to be starting a new adventure in Freetown.

Confused but happy to be boarding the bus with the other chosen soldiers.

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A Long Way Gone ch. 15 and 16

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 8mins

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