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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mami say it is time for, once she puts a stop to the brewing argument on the boat?
(a) A water break.
(b) Paddling.
(c) A truce.
(d) Praying.

2. What does Mahmoud do to honor his deceased fellow passenger when he takes the man's life jacket and buries him at sea?
(a) He says a funeral prayer.
(b) He shuts the man's eyes.
(c) He turns the man toward Mecca.
(d) He washes the man's face.

3. When Josef and the children are below deck during their ship tour, Schiendick and his friends begin to sing a song with anti-Semitic lyrics. What is the subject of the song?
(a) The Third Reich.
(b) German blood.
(c) Jewish blood.
(d) The Fuhrer.

4. To what concentration camp is Josef's father sent whee he is taken into "protective custody" (3)?
(a) Dachau.
(b) Buchenwald.
(c) Bergen-Belsen.
(d) Auschwitz.

5. What is eventually the only part of Isabel's family's boat that remains unsplintered?
(a) The prow.
(b) The lining depicting Fidel Castro.
(c) The benches.
(d) The engine housing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does Josef's little sister Ruthie carry with her at all times?

2. What item falls out of Josef's pocket and is stomped on by a member of the Hitler Youth?

3. Isabel knows that Ivan and his father are actually building a boat in order to travel where?

4. Who takes on the role of being "in charge of the boat" (81) on which Isabel and her family are traveling?

5. When Mahmoud and his family finally reach Greece, no one is celebrating and Mahmoud says he knows why. What reason does Mahmoud give for the refugees' lack of celebration?

(see the answer key)

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