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A Long Way Gone Study Guide
Part 1 Past Quizzes
Directions: Below are the questions from the quizzes you have already had on A Long Way Gone.
Please take out your own quizzes and highlight any questions you got wrong. Then, write the correct answers on this sheet of
paper. If you got the question CORRECT, you DO NOT have to answer it here. If you LOST any of your quizzes, you must answer
all the questions for that section.
Quiz Ch. 1-9
1.) In what country did Ishmael Beah live as a child? ____________________________________________________________________________________
2.) What was one way Beah learned English? ____________________________________________________________________________________________
3.) What was the Rebel Group called who took over the government in Beah’s country? ____________________________________________
4.) What did Ishmael Beah see when the people were fleeing from surrounding villages, including his home village of
Mogbwemo?
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5.) Who was Ishmael taking to the cemetery in his dream? ______________________________________________________________________________
6.) Who did Ishmael live with before the war? ____________________________________________________________________________________________
7.) When Ishmael and his friends got caught in Kamator (chapter 6), the people of the village thought they might be rebels and
asked them a lot of questions. What did they say they would do to them if they were lying?
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8.) How did Ishmael and his brother, Junior, get separated? ____________________________________________________________________________
9.) What were most of the villagers doing when the rebels attacked Kamator? ________________________________________________________
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10.) What did the rebels do to the Imam when he refused to tell them where the villagers were hiding?
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11.) Why did Ishmael decide to leave Kamator? ______________________________________________________________________________
12.) What task did Ishmael do in order to get food? Something that he never thought he could do and then could not do it again
later on.
______________________________________________________________________________
13.) Who is NOT one of the boys in Ishmael’s group:
A. Junior
B. Kabati
C. Talloi
D. Gibrilla
14.) What decade does most of this book take place? ______________________________________________________________________________
15.) Where is Ishmael headed at the end of chapter 7? ______________________________________________________________________________
True or False Please write a T or an F on the line.
______________ 16.) Ishmael’s grandfather cast a spell on him to help him do better in school.
______________ 17.) Ishmael did not know any of the 6 new boys he met up with in chapter 8.
______________ 18.) The boys heard a loud noise at the beginning of chapter 9 and they knew exactly what that sound was.
______________ 19.) The fishing villagers (from the first village) took the boys sneakers away from them when they caught them.
______________ 20.) The chief helped the boys survive when they were hurt, starving, and almost at the brink of death near the
second fishing village.
______________ 21.) The rap cassettes saved the boys’ life when they were caught by the fishing villagers (in the second fishing
village).
______________ 22.) Yele is a name of one of the villages that Ishmael visited.
Ch. 10-15 Quiz
1.) The folklore of “Bra _________________________ ” was told at the village festival to teach everyone a lesson.
2.) When Ishmael and his friends leave the village where the feast was, they are given water and_________________________ The
next morning, the meat is gone and they fight over who took it. It turns out it was a _________________________ .
3.) Ishmael heard that his _________________________ was waiting for him in the next village,
but before he could get there the rebels _________________________ it.
4.) _________________________ was a man from Ishmael’s home village and he was shot in the leg and bled to death.
5.) It is more important for the soldiers to carry _________________________ and ______________________ than food and water.
6.) Ishmael started taking _________________________ when he was a soldier.
7.) As of chapter 15, Ishmael has been a soldier for _________________________ years.
8.) Ishmael talks about, quotes, and has conversations about _________________________ with his lieutenant. He was a British author
who has been dead for almost 400 years.
9.) _________________________ was the group that came to take Ishmael away from his squad of soldiers and the war.
10.) The boys that the civilians took to rehabilitation fought with each other a lot because they were boys from two groups:
_________________________ and _________________________ .
Part 2 Chapter 15-21 review Directions: The questions in the right column are questions that might be on the test. Please use
your book to answer them on the LEFT for an instant, foldable study guide for this part of the test.
Questions
1. What is the name of the nurse
who befriends Beah?
2. What gift does the nurse give to
Beah?
3. What statement does Beah
grow frustrated at hearing the
UNICEF workers repeat?
4. What is the name of Beah's
long-lost uncle?
5. What does Leslie call the act of
reintegrating child soldiers into
normal society?
Answers
6. What does Mr. Kamara want
Beah to interview to do?
7. Who is Beah's sponsor and
chaperone to New York City?
8. Who is the other boy who goes
to New York with Beah?
9. How does the immigration
official in Freetown anger Beah?
10. What new word does Beah
learn upon arriving in New York
City?
11. What about Laura Simms
helps Beah to connect with her
instantly?
12. Who eventually adopts Beah?
13. What amazing sight does Beah
accidentally encounter in New
York City?
14. How old was Beah when he
first addressed the UN?
15. Who declares himself the new
president of Sierra Leone in 1997?
16. How does Uncle Tommy die?
17. Where does Beah hide his
money as he attempts to escape
Sierra Leone?
18. To what neighboring country
does Beah escape from Sierra
Leone?
19. In Pa Sesay's story, what does
the monkey say will happen if the
hunter shoots him?
20. In Pa Sesay's story, what does
the monkey say will happen if the
hunter does NOT shoot him?
21. Why does Beah decide the
hunter should shoot the monkey?
22. Throughout the memoir, what
provides a beautiful contrast to
the violence occurring around
Beah?