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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 216-269.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 visit the doctor and procure a tranquilizer for him.
(b) She will ask the ship's psychiatrist to visit him.
(c) She will leave him alone for an hour so he can soothe himself.
(d) She will restrain him on the cabin bed.

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

3. How many Jewish men must gather to form a minyan in order to comply with Jewish law in the holding of a bar mitzvah?
(a) At least 5.
(b) At least 22.
(c) At least 10.
(d) At least 7.

4. In what activity are Isabel and the other boat passengers engaging when Ivan is attacked by a shark?
(a) They are composing a song about the journey.
(b) They are planning Ivan's upcoming birthday.
(c) They are trying to decide what to tell the authorities in Florida.
(d) They are trying to name the boat.

5. When Mahmoud's family receives the name of a nearby hotel that "accepts Syrians" (105), why do they not stay there?
(a) It is too expensive.
(b) They cannot find it and eventually give up.
(c) It is already full of other families sharing rooms.
(d) It is in a dangerous neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of engine is powering Isabel's boat?

2. The narrator states that Isabel had been so close to Ivan that he felt to her more like a what than like a best friend?

3. Of the refugees boarding the dinghy with Mahmoud's family, what does the narrator say is the kind of person constituting the majority of the passengers?

4. When Isabel thinks of her family's journey as a song, she thinks that what events would constitute the first verse?

5. When regretting the family's decision to leave Cuba, Lito says that "The US has no" (101) what?

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