A Long Walk to Water Ch. 15-18

Why did Nya frown after water sprayed out of the borehole?

• Her family was upset about the water

• Her brother was confusing her

• It was full of mud

• The plan for clean water was ruined

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

Why did Salva decide to leave the Kakuma camp after living there for 3 years?

• He wanted to find his family.

• He was going to the United States.

• He was going back to Ethiopia.

• It was dreadful and felt like a prison.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.1.1

Life in Nya's village changes when some men come to do what?

• Dig a well

• Bring clothes and shoes

• Attack her village

• Build a school

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.1.4

When the camp in Ethiopia is closed, Salva leads a group of boys where?

• Southern Sudan

• Kenya

• Egypt

• Asia

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

What are the orphans being sent to America nicknamed?

• The Lost Boys

• The Kenyan-Americans

• The orphans

• Oliver Twist

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Who taught Salva to speak English?

• Marial

• Uncle

• Chris and Louise

• Michael

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

What are the requirements a boy must meet to go to America?

• healthy, married, and family in the USA

• orphaned, married, and healthy

• orphaned, healthy, and not a rebel soldier

• married, not a solider, and family in the USA

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

What was the exciting news Salva heard at the end of chapter 14?

• He was going back home.

• He was going to meet his family.

• He was going to the United States.

• He was going to Ireland with Michael.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.1.1

What piece of evidence from page 90 explains where the cleanest water is found?

• "Even though the water spraying out of the borehole was brown and muddy..."

• "Yet another walk to the pond."

• "...to make sure of getting deep enough into good clean water underground."

• "Nya went to the gas station and grabbed bottles of water."

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

In Chapter 16, Salva learns that his father is in a United Nations clinic and that he has had stomach surgery. Based on what you know about Sudan and what happens to Akeer (Nya's sister), make an inference on what made his father sick.

• The water in Sudan made him sick.

• The bee stings

• Raw meat

• A crocodile in the Gilo River

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.1