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What is the name of Salva's village?
Loun- Arik
Why doesn’t Nya’s family live near the big lake all the time?
Nya’s family does not live near the big lake all the time because it is not safe. Nya’s tribe, the Nuer and the rival tribe, The Dinka, fight over the land surrounding the big lake.
The purpose of Nya's walk each day?
What is water
Salva is a member of this tribe.
What is the Dinka?
Which narrative (Nya or Salva) is an example of realistic fiction, and which one is a memoir of something that really happened?
Nya - realistic fiction
Salva - memoir / non-fiction
Nya is a part of this tribe.
What is Nuer?
Who does Salva meet, become good friends with and walk with for part of his journey?
Marial
What animal (that Salva's father owns a lot of) traditionally was a reflection of a person's wealth and status in Dinka and Nuer culture?
Cattle (Cows)
What moral dilemma does a member of Salva's group face while they cross the Akobo Desert?
Whether or not to give precious water to a dying man (if they do, they might die themselves)
What was the name of Nya's 5 year old sister?
Who is Akeer
Who gives Salva peanuts and a gourd for his travels?
What is old lady he calls "Auntie"
When Buksa finds the beehive, one man can't eat any honey even though he is hungry. Why not?
He got stung on the tongue
Character is related to Salva, owns a rifle and uses it to help the group of refugees?
Uncle Jewiir
What is the world's longest river, that the refugee group uses handmade reed boats to cross?
Nile River
What animal attacks and kills Marial?
a lion
Why didn't the old lady that Salva calls "auntie" let him come with her when she had to leave her home?
She believed that the rebels and the government would leave a single old lady alone, but having a young man with her would be dangerous.
Bonus: WHY?
How did Uncle encourage Salva in the desert?
giving him small goals like walking only to the bushes ahead of him and repeating his full name
Dinka - V
What year did the real Salva Dut make this journey?
1985
What is the name of the bird species that several East African tribes have learned to "talk to" that will lead them to beehives?
Bonus - what call do people use to talk to the bird?
The Honeyguide
Bonus - Brrrrr-hmmm
Where does Marial tell Salva they are traveling?
Bonus - what JOKE does Marial make when talking about this?
What is East to Ethiopia.
He jokes that actually they will just walk all the way around the Earth and wind up back in Sudan.
When Nya's family is able to live at the lake, she still has to collect water, although she doesn't have to carry it very far. How does she collect it from the dry lake?
Digging holes in the mud.
Why does Nya think it won't be possible to boil the dirty water from the lake for 200 seconds to make it safe to drink?
There is so little of it that after 200 seconds it would be gone.
What do the Dinka call the Atuot tribe?
Bonus: What story did the Dinka have about the Atuot people?
The Dinka call the Atuot “the people of the lion”.
Bonus: it was said that when an Atuot person died they came back as a lion that “hungers for human flesh
What was the name of young Jur-chol boy who lead Salva to the beehive?
Who is Buksa
In Chapter 8, Salva has a flashback of his father on a bicycle. What did Salva's father bring him?
What is Mangoes
What makes Akeer, Nya's younger sister, so sick?
dirty water
What is Salva's full name?
Salva Mawein Dut Ariik
What was the major religious division that was a primary cause of the conflict between the Sudanese government (based in the North, in Khartoum), and the rebels (based in the South).
The Sudanese government wanted all Sudanese people to practice Islam; the rebels in the south were not Muslim.
In the documentary that we watched about the women who collect water in Sudan, how many pounds of water did the journalist have to carry? Closest gets the points.
70 lbs