"A Long Walk to Water" Chapters 1-4

The author of A Long Walk to Water is

• Lois Lowry
• Linda Sue Park
• Rick Riordan
• Thomas Paine

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Why does the author, Linda Sue Park, use two different colors and fonts in the novel, "A Long Walk to Water?"

• a. to distinguish between the two storylines of Salva and Nya

• b. to keep the reader’s attention while reading the novel

• c. to give the reader’s a summary of the upcoming novel

• d. to distinguish between important and miscellaneous information

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This novel is set mainly in _______.

• Egypt
• Sudan
• Nile
• The United States

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On page 1, Nya talks about “going”. Where is she going?

• a. to find food

• b. to find shelter

• c. to find water

• d. to find her friends

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On page 8, the author writes, “Boom”. What type of figurative language is this?

• a. personification

• b. simile

• c. metaphor

• d. onomatopoeia

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What language is Salva learning in school? This is the same language that is primarily spoken in the Sudan.

• a. English

• b. Russian

• c. Hebrew

• d. Arabic

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Where did the soldier instruct Salva to go?

• a. back to school

• b. to go home

• c. to the group of women and children

• d. to the army

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Which part of the story plot diagram would chapters 1-4 fall into?

• introduction

• climax

• falling action

• resolution

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What did Salva's mother give him to keep his belly full until suppertime when he came home from school?

• Fruit
• Milk
• Beef
• Nothing

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Why don't Salva's sisters, Akit and Agnath, go to school?

• They are girls.
• They are too young.
• They do not want to go.
• They have to herd cows. 

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