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homework: text-dependent questions:
a long walk to water, chapter 3
name: brooklyn j. smith date: 9-8-2025
part i
directions: reread each passage from chapter 3 of a long walk to water. then answer the questions below each passage.

1. “the dirt under her feet turned to mud, then sludge, until at last she was ankle-deep in water.” (14)

what word in this sentence best helps in understanding the meaning of sludge? (l.7.4a, l.7.6)
a. dirt
b. feet
c. mud
d. water

1. part a

“it took two gourdfuls before she felt a little cooler inside.” (14)
complete the chart below to break up the word gourdfuls into a suffix and root. you may use your affix list as a resource. (l.7.4b)

gourdfuls	root: gourd	suffix:

Explanation:

Question 1

To determine the word that helps understand "sludge", we analyze the sequence: dirt → mud → sludge → water. "Mud" is a stage between dirt and sludge, so it helps show sludge is a muddier, more watery dirt form. Other options: "dirt" is the start, "feet" is the subject, "water" is the end, not as helpful as "mud".

To break "gourdfuls", we identify the root and suffix. The root is "gourd". The suffix here is "fuls" (broken into "ful" + "s", but as a suffix for the word, "fuls" or more precisely, "ful" (meaning "full of") and "s" (plural), but for the chart, the suffix part after "gourd" is "fuls" (or "ful" + "s", but typically, the suffix for "gourdfuls" is "fuls" where "ful" means "having the quality of" or "full of", and "s" is plural. The meaning of "gourdfuls" would be "the amount that a gourd can hold (in plural)".

Answer:

C. mud

Question 2