A Long Walk to Water

The author of A Long Walk to Water is

• Lois Lowry
• Linda Sue Park
• Rick Riordan
• Thomas Paine

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Salva and Nya are from

• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Congo
• Sudan

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The Second Sudanese War was about 

• Converting all of Sudan to Islam
• Water Rights
• Mining Rights
• Converting all of Sudan to Christianity

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Akit and Agnath were not allowed to herd cows because

• They were allergic
• They were not old enough
• They were girls
• They had lost cows once when watching the cows

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Nya's family had to move several times during the year because

• The war was getting too close
• They did not have a close source of water
• They were renters and had to move when the lease was up
• They wanted to see family

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The Dinka tribe man's wealth was measured by

• the number of cows they owned
• their number of wives
• the size of their hut
• the number of animal skins they owned

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The main reason Salva could tell if someone was not of his tribe was by

• their tatoos
• their language
• the markings on their forehead
• the color of their skin

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How did the Dinka tribe culture fall apart due to the war?

• They no longer had cows which was a measure of wealth
• There are no Dinkas left
• Women became the head of the household
• No one remembered their tribal dance

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Why did Slava have to leave the Itank refugee camp?

• He had to leave to find his familiy
• There wasn't enough food to eat
• He didn't get along with other refugees
• The Ethiopia government was collapsing.

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The program to take "lost boys" from African
to America ended due to

• There were no more "lost boys"
• The program ran out of money
• The 9/11 disaster in New York
• They could find anymore sponsors

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