View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Josef's father is in the throes of a mental breakdown, he tells Josef that each night at the concentration camp, the prisoners were forced to watch one prisoner do what?
(a) Commit suicide by gunshot.
(b) Burn.
(c) Be buried alive.
(d) Drown.

2. What type of humor is Mahmoud's father Youssef's trademark?
(a) Knock-knock jokes.
(b) Sarcasm.
(c) Satire.
(d) Puns.

3. What is NOT an item Mahmoud sees upon disembarking from the Greek Coast Guard boat?
(a) Food kiosks.
(b) Dead bodies.
(c) A rocky shore.
(d) A pile of life jackets.

4. When Isabel thinks of her family's journey as a song, she thinks that what events would constitute the first verse?
(a) The tanker and the storm.
(b) The trip from Cuba to the Dominican Republic.
(c) The riots and the bartering for gasoline.
(d) The trip from the Bahamas to Florida.

5. In the moments after Isabel and the other passengers see Miami, what event happens?
(a) They bury Ivan at sea.
(b) Their boat starts sinking.
(c) Their boat motor dies.
(d) Luis jumps off the boat and starts to swim.

6. After Amara and Isabel's action that reduces the drag on the boat, who tells them that they have doomed every passenger on the boat?
(a) Luis.
(b) Señora Castillo.
(c) Señor Castillo.
(d) Lito.

7. When Isabel first sees the lights of Miami, what does she think she is seeing instead?
(a) A planet.
(b) Stars.
(c) Lightning.
(d) Dawn.

8. What action does Waleed take throughout the entire robbery by the taxi driver, causing Mahmoud to worry about his emotional well-being?
(a) He sucks his thumb.
(b) He sobs.
(c) He rocks.
(d) He sleeps.

9. Who takes charge of performing the memorial service for Ivan before his body must be buried at sea?
(a) Isabel.
(b) Lito.
(c) Senora Castillo.
(d) Senor Castillo.

10. When the head of the ship's committee tells the passengers that the ship will be heading back to Europe, what are the two phrases chanted by the passengers?
(a) "We won't give up" and "We will not die."
(b) "Set us free or pay the price" and "Freedom now."
(c) "Set us free" and "Do the right thing."
(d) "We will not die" and "We will not return."

11. What does Isabel do just before Ivan's body is buried at sea?
(a) She touches Ivan's chest.
(b) She gives Ivan a hug.
(c) She kisses Ivan's forehead.
(d) Nothing, since she is too overcome with grief.

12. What percentage of the adult fare does the smuggler engaged by Mahmoud's father charge for children and babies?
(a) 50%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 100%.
(d) 25%.

13. Where does the Greek Coast Guard take Mahmoud and the other refugees at dawn once the boat is full of people?
(a) Cypress.
(b) Tuscany.
(c) Lesbos.
(d) Sicily.

14. What extra danger does the rescuer of Josef's father face during his dive into the ocean, where Josef's father flounders?
(a) An approaching Border Guard ship.
(b) Circling sharks.
(c) An approaching Coast Guard ship.
(d) Hurricane force winds.

15. When Mahmoud and his family finally reach Greece, no one is celebrating and Mahmoud says he knows why. What reason does Mahmoud give for the refugees' lack of celebration?
(a) Too many of them had lost loved ones in the sea on the way over.
(b) They have heard that Greece has decided to return all Syrian refugees to Syria.
(c) They know that the most dangerous leg of the trip is still to come.
(d) They are too tired to do much of anything.

Short Answer Questions

1. After whom is Josef named?

2. What is the reason that Mahmoud's family's boat begins to fill with water on their journey to the island?

3. Who sews Ruthie's stuffed bunny back together before she can see it headless?

4. To whom does Mahmoud give the deceased man's life jacket?

5. When Isabel searches for Ivan's Industriales hat, where does she find it?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 661 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample