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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were people like Salva called in America, according to the narrator in Chapter 15?

2. Whose strength does Salva recall in Chapter 13?

3. How is the weather described on the day that the refugees are driven out of the camp in Chapter 12?

4. What will be built in Nya's village next year, according to the narrator in Chapter 18?

5. How many boys does Salva travel with to America in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Nya and her fellow villagers respond when water bursts from the hole in Chapter 14?

2. Why are the refugees driven from the camp in Ethiopia in Chapter 12? How are they driven away?

3. What symbolic memory inspires Salva to begin his program for water in Sudan in Chapter 17?

4. How does Jewiir's death affect Salva in Chapter 11?

5. How has Salva's position within the group he travels with changed in Chapter 11?

6. Who greets Salva when he arrives in America in Chapter 15? How are these characters described?

7. What does Nya learn about the building site in Chapter 17?

8. Why does Salva call out to the woman in the orange headscarf in Chapater 12? What realization does he have when he does so?

9. How is Salva's departure from the refugee camp described in Chapter 15?

10. How is the drill described in Chapter 12? What about the drill surprises Nya?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the plot structure of A Long Walk to Water. Where in the story does the exposition transition to rising action? Where does the climax occur? What is revealed in the falling action and denouement?

Essay Topic 2

How does Salva's group cross the River Nile when they reach it? How do the members of the group cooperate in order to achieve a common goal at the Nile? What is Salva's job in this process?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Nya's mother dislike staying at the lake camp during the dry season? How does Nya's understanding of her mother's unhappiness affect her? How will the water pump affect Nya's trips to the lake?

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