Q 01/05

The 'Lost Boys' label for displaced Sudanese children may derive from which classic children's story?

A) Peter Pan

B) Oliver Twist

C) The Jungle Book

D) Treasure Island

Answer · why

A) Peter Pan

Peter Pan is the likely source: healthcare workers in the refugee camps borrowed J. M. Barrie's name for his band of parentless boys. Salva becomes on...

Q 02/05

Before it became a novel, Salva's story first appeared in what form, illustrated by Jim Averbeck?

A) A radio drama

B) A newspaper serial

C) A comic book

D) A picture book

Answer · why

B) A newspaper serial

A newspaper serial, drawn by Jim Averbeck, was the story's original form; Park now recommends Averbeck for classroom visits about the book because he ...

Q 03/05

What food does an old Dinka woman give the exhausted Salva after the first group leaves him behind?

A) Peanuts

B) Dried fish

C) Sorghum porridge

D) Mangoes

Answer · why

A) Peanuts

Peanuts from an old Dinka woman keep Salva going after the first group abandons him as too small to keep up; he then finds new travellers and a friend...

Q 04/05

Salva's father needed surgery for which waterborne parasite, the news that set Salva drilling wells?

A) Tapeworm

B) Hookworm

C) Guinea worm

D) Liver fluke

Answer · why

C) Guinea worm

Guinea worm had infected his father after years of drinking stagnant water, and it was this news that pushed Salva to found Water for South Sudan.

Q 05/05

Reviewers note that the title of Linda Sue Park's novel echoes which Nelson Mandela autobiography?

A) Conversations with Myself

B) Long Walk to Freedom

C) No Easy Walk to Freedom

D) The Struggle Is My Life

Answer · why

B) Long Walk to Freedom

Long Walk to Freedom, Mandela's memoir of the fight against apartheid, is the allusion Booklist's starred review urged teachers to point out to their ...