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A Long Walk to Water Review Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of the female main character in the story?

a)

Akeer

b)

Salva

c)

Nya

d)

Mariel

2.

What is the name of the male main character in the story?

a)

Salva Dut Ariik

b)

Salma Dut Ariik

c)

Salba Put Ariik

d)

Salva Put Ariik

3.
What was the name of the village Salva was from?
a)
Loun-Ariik
b)
Dinka
c)
Louin-Akeer
d)
Nuer
4.
What was the official language of the Sudanese government?
a)
Arabic
b)
Spanish
c)
English
d)
Igbo
5.
Why was there war in Sudan?
a)
The government wanted all of Sudan to become Muslim but people in the south had different religions and did not want to practice Islam.
b)
The government forced all people in southern Sudan to speak Arabic.
c)
The government wanted all tribes to send their daughters to school.
d)
The government and Dinka tribes were fighting over water rights.
6.

A person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country.

a)

Rebel (Noun)

b)

Mortar

c)

Claim

d)

Independence

e)

Gourd

7.
What is the purpose of Nya's journey each day?
a)
To escape the war 
b)
To get water 
c)
To feed her family 
d)
To help her cousins 
8.

What was Salva doing when he heard gunfire and ran into the bush?

a)

gathering firewood so his mother could cook supper

b)

looking for his little brother, who hadn't come home for lunch

c)

sitting in school and thinking about being at home

d)

leading the family cattle to the watering hole

9.

Why did the man agree to take Salva with his group when the old woman asked?

a)

The man's wife, who was confused, thought Salva was her deceased child.

b)

The people in the man's group were Dinka, as was Salva.

c)

The man knew Salva's father and wanted to help his son.

d)

The woman had offered water to the man in exchange for helping Salva.

10.
Based on the information in the text, you can infer that Marial was eaten by a _______.
a)
lion
b)
tiger
c)
bear
d)
topi
11.
The main reason Salva could tell if someone was not of his tribe was by
a)
their tatoos
b)
their language
c)
the markings on their forehead
d)
the color of their skin
12.
What is a refugee?
a)
Someone who has lost their home due to war or disaster and needs help starting a new life in a different country
b)
Someone who must make long and difficult walks to ponds
c)
Someone who fights in a war
d)
Someone who starts his own business
13.

What was Salva kept busy doing at the bank of the Nile?

a)

mending fishing nets to pay the fishermen for carrying him across the river

b)

keeping watch for soldiers while the men carried the women across the river

c)

gathering up cut stalks of papyrus grass and taking them to the boatbuilders

d)

catching fish in the river and helping the women clean them for cooking

14.
What is the name of the group of boys that Salva leads to Kenya?
a)
The Lost Boys
b)
The Loners
c)
The Rascals
d)
The Dirt Sleepers
15.

What did Dep tell Nya about the Dinka who brought water to their village?

a)

He had drilled many wells for his own people.

b)

He had become rich playing basketball in America.

c)

He once had the sickness that came from the water.

d)

He had helped Dep survive the walk from the Ethiopian camp.

16.

How did Nya react when she drank water from the well for the first time?

a)

She thought the water was delicious.

b)

The water was muddy.

c)

She did not like the water.

d)

Nya did not drink the water.

17.

Why did Nya ask her father, "All the children Papa? The girls too?"

a)

Nya did not want to give up her job waling to get water.

b)

Nya did not want to go to school.

c)

Girls normally did not go to school?

d)

She thought the girls would not get any of the water.

18.

In an e-mail from a cousin, Salva learned that his father had _______.

a)

been found and was going to have stomach surgery at a remote clinic

b)

arrived in America and was just two hundred miles away from his son

c)

sold his cattle during the war and put the money in the bank for his son

d)

died with the rest of the family when the village was burned

19.

Why was Salva's father sick?

a)

thirst

b)

mosquitos

c)

contaminated water

d)

burns

20.
If Salva had known all the adversity he was going to face when he started his journey he might have preferred to have died right there and save him the trouble.
What does adversity mean?
a)
troubles and difficulties
b)
people
c)
lions and crocodiles
d)
starvation and drought