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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. When Isabel thinks of her family's journey as a song, she thinks that what events would constitute the first verse?
2. When Isabel and her family learn where they have actually landed in their boat, what does an official tell them will happen if they come all the way ashore?
3. When Josef's ship's engines roar to life for the first time since arriving in a Cuban harbor, where do the passengers believe the ship will be going next?
4. Why is Belgrade, Serbia an unsafe place for Mahmoud and his family?
5. What type of humor is Mahmoud's father Youssef's trademark?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Mahmoud and his family reach the Serbian border on their journey fleeing Syria?
2. What reason is given for why Isabel has never been to church?
3. 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?
4. What details does Isabel remember about her grandmother Lita's death?
5. Why does Isabel not want to look at the face of her dead best friend Ivan?
6. On the second day of Isabel's journey, it is said that it seems to Isabel and Ivan that everyone has a job but the two of them. What jobs are being handled by the others?
7. For what reasons does Lito take on the role of leading Ivan's funeral ceremony?
8. Whenever Mahmoud or his father wonder where Mahmoud's mother is, where do they inevitably find her and what is she doing?
9. How does Mahmoud save his infant sister Hana from drowning after the family's dinghy bursts upon the rocks?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss how the author goes about building the readers' compassion for the refugees featured in the narrative.
Essay Topic 2
Sensory details are used frequently by the author in order to create vivid pictures of each major character's journey and progression through the narrative. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used by the author set a particular mood for each of the three scenes.
Essay Topic 3
How do the themes of deception and secrecy function within the novel and what is the author's message regarding these themes?
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