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122 Cards in this Set
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What does Salva's father do in the village?
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He's the village's judge
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What do Salva and his brothers make for fun when watching the cows?
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Clay cows
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Why were the rebel fighters of Southern Sudan fighting the government?
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For religious freedom
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What village was Salva from?
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Loun-Ariik
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How did Nya carry the water container back home?
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On her head
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Why had the Dinka and Nuer tribes been fighting each other for hundreds of years?
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For the best land (richest in water)
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What tribe does Salva belong to?
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Dinka
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What did the Dinka woman give Salva the morning he awoke in the barn?
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Peanuts
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How could Salva tell that people were from his Dinka tribe?
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(V-shaped) scars on their foreheads
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How many trips to the pond does Nya make each day?
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Two
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After days of walking, what did Salva's group find to feast on?
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Honey
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What tribe does Nya belong to?
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Nuer
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How would Nya get water out of the dried-up lake?
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By digging a hole
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What did Nya's mom fear most at the lake camp?
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The men being killed by Dinka
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What kind of animal did Salva's uncle kill for their feast?
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Antelope
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What took Marial while he slept?
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Lion
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Where was Salva's group walking to?
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Ethiopia
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What did Salva's group use to make canoes?
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Papyrus
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What river was Salva's group crossing?
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The Nile
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What did the nurse tell Nya's mother to do to the drinking water?
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Boil it
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Because a bag of mangoes was awkward to carry, where would Salva's father put them?
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In his bicycle's spokes
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What attacked Salva's group the night they slept on the fishermen's island in the Nile?
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mosquitoes
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What dangerous place did Salva's group have to cross on the last part of their journey to Ethiopia?
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the Akobo desert
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What does Salva's uncle give him to eat when he begins crying in the desert?
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tamarind
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Who in Salva's group did the looters murder?
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Salva's Uncle
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Everyone could be killed, but why were the boys and young men in the most danger from the war?
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They could be forced to be soldiers
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What did Salva's mom always wear that made him think she had arrived at the refugee camp?
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an orange headscarf
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What danger was waiting for the fleeing refugees in the Gilo river?
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Crocodiles
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What did the men come to Nya's village and meet with the chief about?
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Drilling for water
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Where did Salva decide to walk after he was forced out of the Ethiopian refugee camp?
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Kenya
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How long did it take the group of boys to reach Kenya?
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A year and a half
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Besides learning to read English, what did Salva learn from Michael at the refugee camp?
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How to play volleyball
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What did Salva drink on the flight to America?
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Coca-Cola
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Where was Salva's final destination in America?
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Rochester, NY
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What did Salva study in college?
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Business
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What was Nya's dad helping to build now that they would have a well in the village?
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A school
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What makes Salva return to Africa?
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His father
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What is the Dinka way of blessing someone who is lost and is found again?
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Sprinkling water on their head
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What were the orphaned boys of Sudan called?
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The Lost Boys
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What is Salva Dut's nonprofit organization called?
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Water for Sudan
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How many different ways could Nya carry the container when it was filled only with air on her way to get water?
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four different ways
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Salva spoke what language at home?
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the language of his Dinka Tribe
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How old is Nya at the beginning of the book?
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eleven
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How old is Salva at the beginning of the story?
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eleven
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Where does Nya live?
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Southern Sudan
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Where does Salva live?
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Southern Sudan
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The book begins with Nya in Southern Sudan in what year?
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2008
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At the beginning of the book, what year is it when Salva is sitting cross-legged on the bench in school in Southern Sudan?
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1985
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What was Salva's father's position ?
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the village's judge, an honored and respected position
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How many brothers did Salva have?
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3
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How many sisters did Salva have?
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2
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Salva's brothers were sent off to school when they reached what age?
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ten years old
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Did girls go to school in Salva's village?
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no
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What did the girls in Salva's village do instead of going to school?
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They stayed home and learned from their mother how to keep house
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What part of the year did Salva go to school?
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During the rainy season
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What were Salva's sisters" names?
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Akit and Agnath
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Salva and his brothers herded what?
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cattle
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The number of cows each boy was in charge of depended on what?
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his age
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What color was the headscarf that Salva's mother wore?
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orange
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The rebels in Southern Sudan had been fighting for how many years when Salva runs out of the school because of the gunfire?
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two
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The government in Northern Sudan wanted all of the country to be Muslim and be a place where what was followed?
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The beliefs of Islam
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What broke off in Nya's heel when she was carrying the container for water?
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a thorn
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What was the name of Salva's village?
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Loun-Ariik
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Salva's village was named after which one of his relatives?
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his grandfather
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What was Salva's full name?
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Salva Mawien Dut Ariik
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What did Nya place on her head before putting the water-filled container there?
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padded cloth doughnut
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The Dinka had been fighting with what tribe for hundreds of years?
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the Nuer
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The woman whose barn Salva had spent the night gave him two handfuls of what?
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raw peanuts
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What was Nya's little sister's name?
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Akeer
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How old was Nya's little sister?
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5 years old
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After the old woman told Salva that he could stay with her no longer, what did she give him before he left her?
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a bag of peanuts and a gourd for drinking water
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When everyone was weak from hunger, the young man named Buska found what?
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a beehive
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Salva had heard that the Jur-chol could follow the call of the bird called what?
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the honey guide
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What was a 3 days' walk from Nya's village?
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a big lake
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Where did Nya's family move every year when the rains stopped and the pond dried up?
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to a camp near the big lake
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How many months each year did Nya's family live near the big lake?
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five months
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What caused Salva's swollen eye, Buska's lumpy and raw forearms, and Buska's friend's fat lip?
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bee stings
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One man wasn't able to eat any of the honey from the beehive? Why?
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His tongue had been stung by the bees and was swollen so much he couldn't close his mouth
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Whose hand did Salva accidentally step on?
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Marial
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Who was the young man who was the same age and height as Salva and his stride was the same length as Salva's when they walked side by side?
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Marial
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What country did Marial tell Salva was east of Sudan?
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Ethiopia
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In the Dinka language, the Atuot were called what?
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the people of the lion
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What was Nya's older brother's name?
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Dep
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About a month after Salva had run from school into the bush, Salva was walking in the land of what people?
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the Atuot people
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What family member did Salva find in the land of the Atuot people?
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his uncle
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What was Salva's uncle's name?
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Uncle Jewiir
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Why hadn't Salva seen Uncle Jewiir for the last two years?
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he had been in the army
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What did Uncle Jewiir carry on a strap over one shoulder?
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a rifle
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What kind of young antelope did Uncle Jewiir shoot?
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a topi
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What was Nya's uncle's position?
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the chief of the village
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What happened to Marial?
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a lion had taken him away during the night
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What is the longest river in the world?
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the Nile River
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What did Uncle tell Salva was on the other side of the Nile River, which they were going to be crossing?
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the desert
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What did the nurse say caused Akeer's sickness?
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the dirty water
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How long did the nurse say the water should be boiled before drinking it?
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for a count of 200
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What type of meat did the fishermen on the islands in the Nile River eat?
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fish, crocodile, and hippo
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What crops did the fishermen on the islands in the Nile River grow?
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cassava, sugar cane, yams
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What did Uncle give Salva to soothe the sharpest edge of his hunger while the fish were cooking?
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sugar cane
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What did the better-off families in Salva's village mostly eat?
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porridge
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What ingredients were in the porridge that the better-off families in Salva's village ate?
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sorghum and milk
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What type of food did Salva's father get from the village and bring home on his bicycle every so often?
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bags of beans and rice
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What did Salva's father sometimes bring home as a special treat?
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mangoes
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What did fishermen on the islands in the Nile use to protect themselves from the mosquitoes at night?
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white mosquito netting
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How many days did Uncle tell Salva that it would take to cross the Akobo?
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three days
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On the 3rd day of walking through the desert, the group found what kind of bird lying dead by the shallow muddy pond?
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a stork
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When the men finished looting Salva's group in the desert, what did they do to Salva's uncle?
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they shot him
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The men that killed Salva's uncle were from what tribe?
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the Nuer tribe
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After walking through the desert, Salva finally arrived where?
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the refugee camp at Itang
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How long did Salva live in the refugee camp at Itang?
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six years
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When Salva had been living in refugee camps in Northern Kenya for 5 years, how old was he?
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22 years old
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What were the names of the two refugee camps in northern Kenya that Salva lived in?
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Kakuma and Ifo
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What was the name of the aid worker from Ireland who taught Salva some English?
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Michael
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What 2 things did Salva learn from Michael, the aid worker?
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how to read and how to play volley ball
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Salva's name was on a list to go to what state in America?
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New York
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What did Salva have to drink on the plane that was taking him from Nairobi to Frankfurt?
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Coca-cola
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How many planes were required for Salva's journey from Kenya to America?
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three
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What city in New York did Salva go to?
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Rochester
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How many days had it taken Salva to travel from the Ifo refugee camp to his new home in New York?
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four days
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How many children were in Salva's new American family?
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four
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What did Nya's father tell her that they were going to build, now that there would be a well there?
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a school
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When Salva finally saw his father in the recovery room of the makeshift hospital, how long had it been since they had seen each other?
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almost nineteen years
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Did Salva's mother and sisters survive the war?
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yes
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