A Long Walk to Water Chap 7-9

Why is Nya worried about her little sister Akeer?

• She is hungry
• She is sick
• She is young
• She is lost 

What does Salva´s group have to do to get to Ethiopia?

• Cross the Nile River
• Find family 
• Kill a lion 
• Run very fast 

What does Salva´s group have to do to get to Ethiopia?

• Cross the Nile River
• Find family 
• Kill a lion 
• Run very fast 

What does Uncle share with Salva?

• Sugar Cane
• Fish 
• Yams
• All of these 

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What does Salva remember his father bringing him as a treat from the marketplace?

• Sugar Cane
• Mangos
• Peanuts 
• Grapes

What happens after all the fisherman go into their tents?

• They are murdered
• They are dehydrated
• They are attacked by mosquitoes 
• They go to sleep instantly 

What choice is Nya´s family faced with?

• Whether or not to flee the war
• Whether or not to go get water 
• Whether or not to leave the camp
• Whether or not to take Akeer to a doctor farway or let her try to get well at the camp with no medicine.

The phrase ¨A cold fist gripped his heart¨ is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Idiom

What happened to Salva and the other people after eating the antelope after so many weeks of near starvation?

• He got very ill 
• He was full 
• He wanted more 
• He did not eat antelope

How was Marial killed?

• He drowned
• He starved to death 
• He was killed by a lion 
• The soldiers killed him