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Potpourri
100
This event began in 1996 and caused great hardship in Kakuma.
The great famine.
100
The UN built a total of nineteen schools at Kakuma. What school did Alepho attend?
Alepho attended the Juba Primary School.
100
This is a severe form of malnutrition caused by lack of calories and protein.
Marasmus
100
This character is fought for four years in the SPLA before escaping to Kakuma.
Joseph
100
Alepho saw movies starring these two people: _______ and ________.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Richard Norton.
200
What would happen when Alepho tried to fetch water from the faucet?
Fights would break out and Alepho would have to fight to get water.
200
Alepho sometimes had to fight to get to this_______.
The water faucet.
200
This is a condition where the body doesn't have enough red blood cells.
Anemia
200
This character was at Kakuma when Alepho arrived.
Peter
200
Alepho's sheet cost him _______.
180 shillings
300
In late 1996, Joseph came back. From where was he put in the army, and for how long did he fight?
He was originally in Nagatinga, and he fought in the army for 4 years.
300
To watch movies on television, Alepho went to this area _________.
Alepho went to the Somali area.
300
This is a severe form of malnutrition by lack of proteins, related to marasmus.
Kwashiorkor
300
A man from this race attacked Alepho and his friends when they went into the forest.
The Turkana race
300
How many levels of education were there in the Kakuma schools?
Eight
400
When the man beat the boys, what did Alepho compare him to?
Alepho compared him to any 'angry lion'.
400
Earlier in the story, Joseph helped Alepho and Peter make the walk to _______.
Palataka.
400
This condition is caused by lack of vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate.
Rickets
400
This person taught a class of children what spatulas are by using pictures in a book.
Alepho's teacher
400
Name three of the things that were reduced when the UN started sending less money.
Any of the following: school facilities, food, medical care, and shelter.
500
The boys at Kakuma were underfed and malnurished due to the famine. Name at least three diseases that were common in the camp due to malnurishment.
Any three out of the following: marasmus, kwashiorkor, beriberi, anemia, and ricktes.
500
Alepho, Bul, and Deng went into this to find firewood.
They went into the Turkana's forest.
500
This is a condition caused by lack of thiamine, otherwise known as vitamin B1.
Beriberi
500
These two boys went with Alepho to forage for firewood.
Bul and Deng
500
Name the year and day of the week Alepho and his friends went into the Turkana's forest.
It was a Saturday in 1997.
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