A Long Walk to Water Test

Why does the author have Nya's story in brown text and Salva's story in black text?

• The author wanted to create a structure for the reader to understand there are two different stories happening

• The author thought it was entertaining

• The author wanted to set the tone of the book

• The author's favorite colors are brown and black

What might have been the author's purpose for telling us the story of Nya and Salva?

• To show the important school is in Sudan

• To explain how people can help people in Southern Sudan

• To show the struggles faced by the people of South Sudan

• To tell the story of the Dinka and Nuer tribes

If Salva had known all the adversity he was going to face when he started his journey he might have preferred to have died right there and save him the trouble.
What does adversity mean?

• troubles and difficulties

• people

• lions and crocodiles

• starvation and drought

What did the old woman give Salva when he left with the other Dinka?

• bag of peanuts and a gourd for drinking

• bag of mangoes and a gourd for drinking

• bag of almonds and a gourd for drinking

• bag of bread and a gourd for drinking

Why did Nya ask her father, "All the children Papa? The girls too?"

• Nya did not want to give up her job waling to get water.

• Nya did not want to go to school.

• Girls normally did not go to school?

• She thought the girls would not get any of the water.

What does the well possibly bring to Nya's village in addition to clean water?

• A school

• A marketplace

• A medical clinic

• All of the above

True or False: Salva drilled wells for both the Nuer and the Dinka tribes.

• True

• False

What tribe does Salva belong to?

• Nuer

• Kenya

• Dinka

• Sudanese

Salva was becoming very __________________ during his walk in the Akobo Desert because he hadn't had a meal in weeks.

• heaving

• emaciated

• plump

• fat

One of the themes of "A Long Walk to Water" is that you should never give up. Which quote below shows that theme?

• "How can I go on without them? But how can I not go on?... I need only to get through the rest of this day and no other" (Park 72-73).

• "He felt as though he were standing on the edge of a giant hole - a hole filled with the black despair of nothingness...I am alone now. I am all that is left of my family" (Park 72).

• "As the days went by, the uneasiness grew into fear. Salva was almost seventeen years old now - a young man" (Park 73).