Characters
Characters
Background/Politics
Salva's Story
Miscellaneous
100
Travels long distances in search of water for her village
Who is Nya?
100
Founded the water for Sudan project
Who is Salva?
100
The country in which A Long Walk to Water is set
What is Sudan?
100
Name two of the difficulties that Salva encounters in the desert.
What are: lions, lack of water, extreme heat, exhaustion
100
This name referred to the young male refugees of Sudan, some of whom were led to safety by Salva
What are the Lost Boys?
200
Author of A Long Walk to Water
Who is Linda Sue Park?
200
Salva's friend who goes missing in the dessert
Who is Marial?
200
The country that Salva first walks to
What is Ethiopia?
200
The dangerous river that Salva helps build boats to cross
What is the Nile?
200
Approximately how long it takes Nya to travel to and from the lake for water
What is half a day?
300
Teaches Salva to read and play volleyball
Who is Michael?
300
The name of Salva's tribe
What is Dinka?
300
The language that the Sudanese government required Salva to learn in school
What is Arabic?
300
The city that Salva came to live in in the United States
What is Rochester?
300
The dangerous river that Salva must cross, full of crocodiles, while being sprayed with bullets
What is the Gilo?
400
Nya's sister who becomes very sick from the drinking water
Who is Akeer?
400
The name of Salva's uncle who helps him to survive
Who is Jewiir?
400
The primary reason for the fighting in Sudan
What is religion?
400
According to Salva, these two things are what enabled him to keep going and survive
What are faith and perseverance?
400
The name of Nya's tribe
What is Nuer?
500
Salva's sister who is not allowed to attend school
Who is Agnath?
500
Nya's older brother
Who is Dep?
500
The two refugee camps that Salva lived at while in Kenya: A) Kakuma B) Ifo C) Topi D) Atuto E) Akit
What is Kakuma and Ifo (A and B)
500
This was Salva's major in college
What is business?
500
This is what the people of Nya's village call the drill
What is a giraffe?
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