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A Long Way Gone Jeopardy!

Characters Events Similes,

Metaphors, and Personification

Quote Identification

Topics and Themes

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This is the name of Ishmael’s older brother.

Who is Junior?

$100

This is the nurse who helps Ishmael with his rehabilitation.

Who is Esther?

$200

This is the name of the man Ishmael meets who reads Julius Caesar.

Who is Lieutenant Jabati?

$300

This is Ishmael’s friend in the rehabilitation center.

Who is Alhaji?

$400

This is the name of the man who Ishmael and the other boys were

following to the village before his parents died.

Who is Gasemu?

$500

What is the “box” that Ishmael rides in before and after his interview with

the UN?

What is an elevator?

$100

The boys bring these out to the yard every night only to have them

returned each day, until it rains.

What are mattresses?

$200

When Ishmael performs this play at the talent show Mr. Kamara

recruits him to be a spokesperson at the center.

What is a monologue from Julius Caesar (Shakespeare acceptable)?

$300

While at the rehabilitation center, Ishmael memorizes what to help

distract himself from his war memories.

What is song lyrics?

$400

Ishmael rides a bus to this country to escape Sierra Leone.

What is Guinea?

$500

This literary device compares two things using the words like or as.

What is a simile?

$100

This literary term gives human qualities to things that are not

actually human.

What is personification?

$200

This quote uses this literary device: “When Bah and I stepped

through the sliding doors, we were greeted by an extremely

cold wind” (182).

What is personification?

$300

The following quote uses this literary device: “…Being in the house felt as though we had left

New York City and entered a different world” (200).

What is simile?

$400

The following quote uses this literary device: “I concluded to

myself that if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it

would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same

predicament” (218).

What is a metaphor?

$500

This person says, “If I make my way to New York, can I stay with

you at your house” (209).

Who is Ishmael?

$100

This person says, “’Sure. Give me a call when you get to

America…I don’t have a phone, so call Aminatas house and she can come and get me’” (192).

Who is Uncle Tommy?

$200

This person tells Ishmael, “Sometimes I think about those great times we had dancing at talents shows, practicing new

dances…It seems like all those things happened a very long time

ago. It is really strange, you know” (170).

Who is Mohamed?

$300

This person says, “None of what happened was your fault. You were just a little boy, and anytime you

want to tell me anything, I am here to listen (160).”

Who is Esther?

*** DAILY DOUBLE ***$400

This person says, “You have been great soldiers and you all know that you are a part of this brotherhood”

(129).

Who is Lieutentant Jabati?

$500

This is a phrase, but not a complete sentence.

What is a topic?

$100

This is a universal idea that shows connections made in the novel and often combines two

topics. It must be a full sentence.What is a theme?

$200

Topic, Theme, Or Neither? Desensitization to violence is when people become unfazed, and even excited by violence.

What is neither?

$300

Topic, Theme, or Neither? Loss of innocence and loss of hope.

Topic

$400

Topic, Theme, or Neither? When survival supersedes all other

needs people often stop trusting others and depend only on

themselves.

Theme

$500