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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?
Salva thinks he sees this person at the Itang Refugee Camp?
Who is his mother
Nya is apart of this tribe.
What is Nuer?
Salva reunites with this person in Chapter 16?
Who is his father, Mawien?
It takes this long to cross the Akobo dessert.
What is three days?
What does one woman in the group do for a dying man in the desert?
What is gives him water
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"
What season is it in America when Salva arrives?
What is winter
What main character owns a rifle and uses it to help the group of refugees?
Who is Uncle Jewiir
Where does Salva get sent to?
What is Rochester, New York
What animals attack and kill many of the escaping refugees?
What is crocodiles?
Which character vanishes in the night, maybe eaten by a lion?
What is Marial
How did Uncle encourage Salva in the desert?
What is giving him small goals and repeated his full name
What name is given to the boys who made their way to Kenya?
What is The Lost Boys
Where did this story take place?
What is Africa, Southern Sudan
Who is the leader of the drilling crew?
What is Salva
Where does Marial tell Salva they are traveling?
What is East to Ethiopia
Who killed Uncle?
What is Nuer men
Where do the soldiers chase the people of the camp? What are the dangers involved?
The soldiers were chasing the people towards the Gilo River. The Gilo river was between Ethiopia and Sudan. Crossing the river would be very dangerous because of the current and the crocodiles.
What do the Dinka call the Atuot and why?
The Dinka call the Atuot “the people of the lion” because they live in an area where there are lions; 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
Who does Nya meet at the end of the book?
What is Salva
What does Salva find out about his family while talking to his father?
What is she is still alive, along with his sisters and one brother
What inspires Salva to create Water for Sudan?
What is his father's sickness from drinking dirty water.
What beverage does Salva drinks on the plane to America and it reminds him of his father?
What is Coca-Cola