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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who appears next to Josef's ship and manages to convince authorities to release his two daughters from the ship?
2. When Mahmoud cries with "exhaustion and misery" (192) while floating in the sea and wants "to do it all over again," what is NOT something he includes on the list of things he would do differently?
3. How many euros does the taxi driver transporting Mahmoud and his family demand at gunpoint?
4. Where does Josef's mother take Ruthie so that she can enact her plan to calm her husband?
5. Who pulls Isabel hurriedly into the boat in order to save her from being attacked by the shark who has bitten Ivan?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. For what reasons does Lito take on the role of leading Ivan's funeral ceremony?
4. What is Josef's mother's plan for procuring a sleeping potion to help calm her husband Aaron down?
5. What is the reason given for the firemen on the ship engaging in bad behavior while the ship is docked in Cuba and what are they said to be doing?
6. What change occurs in Josef's mother's personality once the MS St. Louis leaves Cuba?
7. What occurs when Isabel and her family realize they have landed on the Bahamas?
8. What about Waleed's reaction to being held at gunpoint worries Mahmoud about his brother even more than before?
9. How do Mahmoud and his family reach the Serbian border on their journey fleeing Syria?
10. For what reason does Dr. Aber, the father of Renata and Evelyne, tell the girls to disembark from the ship without bringing any of their belongings?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the author's use of literary devices such as metaphor, simile, and personification. How are literary devices used by the author in order to support and underscore particular themes and messages within the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss how and why the author instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Alan Gratz's Refugee.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the author's focus on the theme of cultural identity. What message is the author sending about cultural identity and how does the author get across this message to the reader?
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