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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 73-140.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mahmoud buy for his brother Waleed in one of the shops at the refugee camp in Turkey?
(a) A stuffed zebra.
(b) A stuffed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
(c) A stuffed Teletubby.
(d) A stuffed teddy bear.

2. What item does Josef's little sister Ruthie carry with her at all times?
(a) Her teddy bear.
(b) Her stuffed turtle.
(c) Her stuffed rabbit.
(d) Her blanket.

3. What are piropos?
(a) Beaches.
(b) Fried dough pockets filled with meat.
(c) Coats.
(d) Flirtatious compliments Cuban men say to women on the street.

4. Who gives Mahmoud's father directions that will keep the family away from major sites of fighting?
(a) Priests.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Missionaries.
(d) Nuns.

5. What shared characteristic had bonded the Soviet Union to Cuba prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union?
(a) Egalitarianism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Communism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is NOT among Fidel Castro's oft-repeated list of the three greatest achievements of the Cuban Revolution?

3. What does Isabel give the fisherman in return for gasoline to power Ivan's family's boat?

4. On what condition is Josef's father released?

5. Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, most farms in Cuba had been what type of farms?

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