Q 01/05

In A Long Way Gone, what are Ishmael and his brother travelling to when rebels attack their home village?

A) A soccer match

B) A talent show

C) A cousin's wedding

D) A harvest feast

Answer · why

B) A talent show

A talent show in a nearby town was the draw. The boys planned to perform rap songs and told no one they were leaving, because they expected to be home...

Q 02/05

The drug 'brown brown', which Ishmael Beah's unit sniffed in A Long Way Gone, mixes cocaine with what?

A) Tobacco

B) Chili powder

C) Coffee grounds

D) Gunpowder

Answer · why

D) Gunpowder

Gunpowder was the extra ingredient. Beah blames the addictions and the brainwashing for the violence he carried out as a boy.

Q 03/05

The opening scene of A Long Way Gone finds Ishmael Beah at high school in 1998 in which city?

A) New York

B) Los Angeles

C) Washington

D) Philadelphia

Answer · why

A) New York

New York is where the book opens. Curious classmates ask him about the war, and he smiles and tells them almost nothing.

Q 04/05

A village chief who finds rap cassettes on the captured Ishmael Beah orders him to do what?

A) Pray

B) Wrestle

C) Dance

D) Drum

Answer · why

C) Dance

Dance was the test, and it worked: the chief decided the boys were lost children fleeing the war, not rebels, and released them instead of drowning th...

Q 05/05

In A Long Way Gone, a strange roaring that frightens the seven wandering boys turns out to be what?

A) A waterfall

B) A helicopter

C) A bush fire

D) The ocean

Answer · why

D) The ocean

The ocean was making the noise. Beah had never stood on the shore of one so vast, and the sight calmed the boys enough to play soccer on the sand.