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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 141-215.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Mahmoud's father keep the family's official papers and their money?
(a) In a safe deposit box.
(b) Tucked into his pants under his shirt.
(c) Sewn into Waleed's hat.
(d) In his wallet.

2. Schiendick enrages Josef's father by saying that German law states that what object must be covered with the Nazi flag?
(a) The ship's stock of water.
(b) The coffin of a deceased crew member.
(c) The door of the captain's quarters.
(d) A body buried at sea.

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

4. What reason does Isabel's father give for forbidding anyone to strike a match even though their boat is about to be hit by a tanker?
(a) He thinks the current wind will immediately extinguish the flame.
(b) He does not want them to waste their few matches.
(c) Being saved will result in being sent back to Cuba.
(d) The tanker is likely manned by human traffickers.

5. Who sews Ruthie's stuffed bunny back together before she can see it headless?
(a) Captain Schroeder.
(b) Josef's mother.
(c) Otto Scheindick.
(d) Josef.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is eventually the only part of Isabel's family's boat that remains unsplintered?

2. 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?

3. In what activity are Isabel and the other boat passengers engaging when Ivan is attacked by a shark?

4. For what transgression do the Nazis say they are taking Josef's father into "protective custody" (3)?

5. Who is the subject of the portrait that the rabbi asks Captain Schroeder to remove during the bar mitzvah on the ship?

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