A Long Walk to Water Chapter 13
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This quiz focuses on reading comprehension of Chapter 13 from "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park, specifically targeting the dual narratives of water access challenges and refugee survival. Designed for middle school students in grades 5-8, the questions assess literal comprehension skills through recall of specific plot details, character actions, and story events. Students need strong reading comprehension abilities to extract explicit information from the text, understand cause-and-effect relationships in the narrative, and distinguish between true and false statements about story events. The quiz covers critical story elements including the water-drilling process, the dangerous river crossing scene with soldiers and wildlife attacks, casualty numbers, and Salva's leadership journey as he guides other boys to safety in Kenya. Students must demonstrate their ability to identify specific details about characters' motivations, geographic locations, and the survival challenges faced by refugees in this historical fiction narrative. This quiz was created by a classroom teacher who designed it for students studying middle-grade literature and reading comprehension. The assessment serves multiple instructional purposes, functioning effectively as a chapter check to ensure students have completed their assigned reading, a formative assessment to gauge comprehension before moving to deeper analysis activities, or a review tool before summative assessments on the novel. Teachers can deploy this quiz as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before class discussions, assign it as homework to reinforce independent reading accountability, or use it during guided reading sessions to check understanding of plot progression. The questions align with Common Core standards RL.5.1, RL.6.1, and RL.7.1, which require students to quote accurately from texts when explaining what the text says explicitly, and standards RL.5.3, RL.6.3, and RL.7.3, which focus on analyzing how characters respond to challenges and how plot unfolds through specific events.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was needed for the workers to find water?
Sonar
Water
Shovels
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.2
CCSS.RI.8.2
CCSS.RL.5.2
CCSS.RL.6.2
CCSS.RL.8.2
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did the workers use to move the water to the work site?
A big plastic bag.
A large bucket.
A pipe
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.3
CCSS.RI.7.3
CCSS.RI.5.3
CCSS.RI.5.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The soldiers forced the refugees into a canyon.
true
false
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.5.2
CCSS.RL.6.1
CCSS.RL.7.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What animal attacked the people in the river?
Crocodile
Hippo
Parahna
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.3
CCSS.RI.7.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RI.8.3
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did the soldiers do to the people in the river?
Shoot them
Give them floaties
Give them rafts
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.6.1
CCSS.RL.7.1
CCSS.RF.5.4C
CCSS.RI.7.1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Salva almost drowned in the river.
True
False
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.2
CCSS.RI.8.2
CCSS.RL.6.2
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How many people died in the river?
100
1,000
100,000
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.7
CCSS.RI.7.7
CCSS.RL.5.7
CCSS.RL.6.7
CCSS.RL.8.7
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