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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Lito.
(b) Señora Castillo.
(c) Luis.
(d) Señor Castillo.

2. Who suggests that two of the boat's passengers get into the water and hang onto the boat in order to reduce the risk of capsizing?
(a) Lito.
(b) Isabel.
(c) Papi.
(d) Mami.

3. When Josef's father Aaron barricades the door of the family's cabin, what is Josef's mother's plan to calm him?
(a) She will leave him alone for an hour so he can soothe himself.
(b) She will ask the ship's psychiatrist to visit him.
(c) She will restrain him on the cabin bed.
(d) She will visit the doctor and procure a tranquilizer for him.

4. What words does Josef's father scream throughout his rescue from the ocean?
(a) "Get away!"
(b) "Please help me!"
(c) "Vengeance will be mine!"
(d) "Let me die!"

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After robbing Mahmoud's family at gunpoint, what does the taxi driver order the family to do?

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

3. While trying not to look at Ivan's lifeless body, Isabel thinks about the fact that who has "Ivan's blood all over him" (224)?

4. When Isabel's boat is sinking and all the passengers are bailing furiously, what kind of craft approaches them suddenly?

5. Mahmoud's family makes the decision not to wait in Athens to acquire what items?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reaction do the other passengers of the MS St. Louis have to Renata and Evelyne being allowed to leave the ship to join their father?

2. What occurs when Isabel and her family realize they have landed on the Bahamas?

3. When Isabel realizes that each part of the journey has been like the verse of a song, what results does she come up with when thinking of the various verses the song would include?

4. What reason is given for why Isabel has never been to church?

5. What change occurs in Josef's mother's personality once the MS St. Louis leaves Cuba?

6. Though the narrator states that a few of the refugees Mahmoud sees when boarding the dinghy have backpacks or plastic bags, how are most of the refugees carrying their belongings?

7. What is Josef's mother's plan for procuring a sleeping potion to help calm her husband Aaron down?

8. How does Mahmoud save his infant sister Hana from drowning after the family's dinghy bursts upon the rocks?

9. What shocking detail does Mahmoud's father reveal to his family once they have been thrown into the water by their dinghy's destruction on the rocks?

10. How do Mahmoud and his family reach the Serbian border on their journey fleeing Syria?

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