Setting
Plot
Tricky Questions
Vocab
Characters
100
The country Kek comes to the US from.

What is Sudan?

100
The problem that Lou is facing near the end of the story that also hurts Kek.

What is having to sell the farm.

100

Where Kek's mother is.

What is - We don't know?

100

Kek call this a flying boat.

What is an airplane?

100

This family relationship describes Ganwar and Kek.

What is cousins?

200

Kek moves to this state.

What is Minnesota?


200

The object Hannah throws at Kek.

What is a snowball?

200

Cows represent this in Africa.

What is life?

200

The word for someone who flees their country due to disasters like war and tsunamis?

What is Refugee?

200

The helping man's name.

Who is Dave?

300

Kek sees this on his first car ride in Minnesota and shouts for the car to stop.

What is a cow in the snow?


300
The reason Kek thinks all the trees in America are dead.

What is - They have lost their leave for the winter.

300

Kek's scrap of cloth most likely came from this person.

Who is his mother?

300

Kek calls this a "magic water pot".

What is a toilet?

300

This is how Ganwar lost his hand.

What is in the war?

400

The reason Kek is leading the cow through the middle of traffic.

What is to take her to the zoo?

400

In the epilogue - the reaction Kek has to the person who comes off the plane.  Both his words and his action.

What is - He embraces her and says, "Welcome home."?

400

The reason Kek cries when he sees his aunt's eyes.

What is her eyes remind him of his mother?

400

Kek says there are holes in his life.  These are the holes he is talking about.

What are the holes left by his mother , father, brother, uncle and cousins?

400

Kek put two of these in Lual's mattress.

What are snakes?

500

The reason Kek thinks he cannot use his school desk.

What is He doesn't have enough money or cattle to pay for it?

500

The outcome of Kek's first dishwashing experience in Minnesota.

What is they all broke when he put them in the clothes washing machine?

500

The reason Kek says he was lucky to see his father and brother killed.

What is because not knowing is harder?

500

The type of words drivers are yelling at Kek when he says, "Some people who drive by use words I haven't learned in ESL yet."

What is swear words or mean words?

500

The place where Kek's aunt works.

What is a nursing home?

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