View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many letters are there in the Arabic alphabet?

2. Whose strength does Salva recall in Chapter 13?

3. What rule is established regarding the well in Chapter 18?

4. What clothing does Salva receive when he meets Chris and Louise at the airport?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Michael and how does Salva meet him?

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

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

6. How does the narrative style change in Chapter 18?

7. What fears does Salva face in regards to the refugees sent to America?

8. What takes place at the celebration for the well's erection in Chapter 18?

9. Who explains the drilling process to Nya in Chapter 15? How is the process explained?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the character of Marial in the novel. Where does Salva meet Marial? In what ways are these characters similar? How are they different? What happens to Marial?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's use of irony in A Long Walk to Water. What are examples of dramatic irony in the story? How is verbal irony employed? What are examples of situational irony? How does each example serve the story?

Essay Topic 3

What is the catalytic event that sets off Salva's journey? Where in the novel does this event occur? Where does Salva go when he leaves his village? Why?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 918 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample