Along Walk to Water

The main male character in this novel is named:

• Dep

• Akobo

• Salva

• Jewir

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

The main female character in this novel is named:

• Nya

• Akit

• Akeer

• Salva

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Why did Salva have to leave his village?

• a fire

• his family moved

• war

• he was too old to stay there

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

This friend of Salva disappears during their journey to Ethiopia:

• Nya

• Buska

• Atuot

• Marial

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

Nya's sister and Salva's father are both made sick by:

• dirty water

• lack of food

• injuries

• the heat

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What did Salva's father bring back from the market in the spokes of his bicycle tires?

• pears

• peaches

• mangoes

• coconuts

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What does Nya's village plan to build when the well is completed?

• a school

• new homes

• irrigation ditches

• another well

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Who does Salva go visit in a clinic in Sudan?

• Nya

• his father

• uncle

• Buska

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CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

What does Salva say helped him to overcome the difficulties in his life?

• hope and faith

• persistence and strength

• love and family

• hope and perseverance

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CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

One of the themes of "A Long Walk to Water" is that you should never give up. Which quote below shows that theme?

• "How can I go on without them? But how can I not go on?... I need only to get through the rest of this day and no other" (Park 72-73).

• "He felt as though he were standing on the edge of a giant hole - a hole filled with the black despair of nothingness...I am alone now. I am all that is left of my family" (Park 72).

• "As the days went by, the uneasiness grew into fear. Salva was almost seventeen years old now - a young man" (Park 73).

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2