A+Long+Walk+to+Water

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 * 1) Where was Salva when his village was first attacked? What tribe is he from? Answer: at school. He is from the Dinka tribe.
 * 2) When Salva met Marial, where did Marial say they were going? Answer: going east to Ethiopia, to a refugee camp
 * 3) Who was the first relative Salva met on the road? Answer : Uncle Jewiir or just "Uncle"
 * 4) When Marial disappearred, what does the group suspect happened? Answer: A lion so hungry approached the sleeping group, taken him and ate him.
 * 5) Describe a typical day for Nya when the family was not at the lake camp. Answer: She would rise early and walk to the pond, fill her water container and walk home for lunch. Then after lunch she would walk again to the pond and return in the evening. She spent most of the day walking to and from their home to fetch water.
 * 6) Why is Nya's mom worried about her husband and son going hunting? Answer: They were Nuer tribe and the Dinka were a rival tribe that often fought over the same land around the pond. Sometimes the Nuer men would be injured or killed in these skirmishes.
 * 7) After spending six years in the refugee camp in Ethopia, Salva along with all the other refugees were forced to leave. In the exodus over 1000 people died at the river. How did they die? Answer: some drowned in the swift current, others were shot by the soliders that were forcing them to cross the river out of Ethiopia, some were eaten by crocodiles.
 * 8) How did Salva get out of the refugee camps permenantly? Answer: He was sent to America as on of the "lost boys" of Sudan.
 * 9) Besides fresh water, what did the well do for Nya and all the children of the village, especially the girls? Answer: It freed them from the long walks to fetch water so they could now attend school.
 * 10) Who was the boss of the drilling team that helped build the water pump for Nya's village? Why was it strange that he would help the village? Anwser: Salva. Answer#2 because he was Dinka and Nya's village was Nuer they were warring enemies for many generations and part of the reason there was war in the country. Salva had learned to love his enemy.