A Long Walk to Water Chapters 14, 15, 16

Why did Nya frown after water sprayed out of the borehole?

• Her sister would have to wait a little longer for water.

• It was full of mud.

• Her family was upset about the water.

• Her brother was confusing her.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

Why did Salve decide to leave the Kenyan Kakuma camp after living there for 3 years.

• He wanted to find his family.

• It was dreadful and felt like a prison.

• He was going to the United States.

• He was going to Ethiopia

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.3

Who was Michael?

• Aide Worker

• Friend

• Soldier

• Doctor

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CCSS.RL.7.1

What 2 things did Michael teach Salva?

• English and Volleyball

• To Fight and Survive

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

What are the restrictions to a boy getting on the list to go to America?

• Healthy, Married and Family in the USA

• Orphaned, Healthy and not a Rebel Soldier.

• Orphaned, Married and Healthy.

• Married, Not a Soldier and Family in the USA.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

What was the exciting news Salva got at the end of chapter 14?

• He was going to go back home.

• He was going to the United States.

• He was going to meet his family.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

Which piece of evidence from page 90 explains where the cleanest water is found?

• "Even though the water spraying out of the borehole was brown and muddy..."
• ".... to make sure of getting deep enough into good clean water underground."
• "Yet another walk to the pond."
• "Nya went to Quik Trip and found her way to the bottled water."

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CCSS.RL.6.1

Salva was the leader of this group of people who wandered for weeks or months at a time before finding refugee camps. 

• Dinka
• The Lost Boys
• Loun-Ariik
• Nuer

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CCSS.RI.6.3

"The frigid air hit Salva's face like a slap." (p. 95) This is an example of what type of figurative language?

• metaphor
• noun
• simile
• alliteration

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

All these were new to Salva in the U.S. EXCEPT FOR:

• seeing white people
• volleyball
• electricity
• snow

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CCSS.RL.6.1