Characters
Plot Points
Vocabulary
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6th
100

Nya's younger sister

Who is Akeer

100

His father is alive

What Salva learns from his cousin's email?

100

done with great care or caution

gingerly

100

The main setting of A Long Walk to Water

What is Sudan?

100

a comparison between two unlike things using the word like or as

What is a simile?

200

Salva's uncle that leads the group of refugees

Who is Uncle Jewiir

200

Uncle Jewiir dies

What is the climax of the story?

200
in a serious manner

solemn

200

The tribe Salva is from

What is the Dinka tribe?

200

When a character in the novel tells the story

What is first person point of view?

300

A young man that gets killed by a lion

Who is Marial?

300

Take it one step at a time

What advice does Uncle Jewiir give to Salva?

300

to make extremely thin from starvation

emaciated

300

The tribe Nya is from

What is the Nuer tribe?

300

struggling with lack of confidence or insecurities

What is an internal conflict?

400

Salva's youngest brother that is killed during the war

Who is Kuol?

400

How the refugees cross the nile

What are the makeshift canoes?

400

a high pitched crying

wailing

400

The point of view of the story

What is third person limited?

400

when the characters and the setting of the story are revealed

What is the exposition?

500

A young girl whose village is chosen for a new well

Who is Nya?

500

They are forced out

Why did the refugees leave the camp at Kakuma?

500

to do something reluctantly or resentfully

grudgingly

500

It symbolizes hope for the future

What does the water that surges from the well symbolize?

500

When the author shows you the traits of a character through their actions, words, and thoughts

What is indirect characterization?

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