Vocabulary
Characters
Setting
Plot
Theme and
Central Idea
100

A synonym for the word "relief"

What is substitute, comfort, or ease?

100
Salva feels this way about his education and family.
What is grateful or appreciative?
100
The story takes place here.
What is Southern Sudan?
100
Salva is in a classroom, staring out the window.
What is the introduction or exposition?
100
The most explicit theme for Nya's struggle.
What is Water is life.
200
A synonym for "fog," "haze," and "trance"
What is daze?
200
Nya spends her time each day doing this.
What is fetching water for her family?
200
The place to which Nya walks twice each day.
What is a pond?
200
The school is attacked by rebel soldiers and Salva runs into the bush rather than home is this part of the plot in A Long Walk to Water.
What is the incitement to action or start of the rising action?
200
A central idea and lesson that Salva learns from his uncle.
What is leadership?
300
A synonym for "serious," "somber," and "thoughtful"
What is solemn?
300
The Character Buksa add this to the story.
What is hope?
300
Salva knew that Marial, despite being Dinka, was not from his village because of this.
What is Marial's accent.
300
This creates the major conflict for Nya.
What is water.
300
A central idea that keeps both Nya and Salva from giving up.
What is hope?
400
to appraise, estimate, or judge.
What is gauge?
400
Akeer's laugh was "like music" to Nya because of this.
What is Nya was relieved that Akeer was feeling better?
400
A place described as arid and "the most difficult part of the journey."
What is the Akobo dessert.
400
When Salva wakes up alone in a barn and realizes that the group has left him, is this part of the plot.
What is the rising action?
400
This theme encompasses what Salva's learns when coping with Marial's death.
What is inactivity is the enemy?
500
lacking in variety; tediously unvarying.
What is monotonous?
500
Salva's uncle used Salva's full name when speaking to him in the desert for this reason.
What is to remind Salva that he is from an important family?
500
The author uses the scene at the beginning of Chapter 2 to create this effect on the setting.
What is to show the chaos and panic, to show a change in setting, and to sever Salva with his past.
500

the color of an apple

what is orange 

500
Theme of the novel
What is There is nothing more resilient than the human spirit.
M
e
n
u