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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 270-317.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the age difference between Isabel and Ivan?
(a) Ivan is one year older than Isabel.
(b) Ivan is two years older than Isabel.
(c) Isabel is one year older than Ivan.
(d) Isabel is two years older than Ivan.

2. When the narrative rejoins Josef in 1939, each member of the family is now wearing what item?
(a) A Star of David armband.
(b) A Star of David tattoo.
(c) A prisoner number placard.
(d) A red jacket.

3. The narrator remarks that despite the number of dead bodies Mahmoud has seen, the experience of "seeing death" (180) never stops being what?
(a) Sad.
(b) Alarming.
(c) Deadening.
(d) Horrifying.

4. Though Mahmoud and his family are impossibly exhausted during their walk to their destination country, they do not stop. What do they know will happen if they stop?
(a) They will get hypothermia.
(b) They will fall asleep and never wake up.
(c) They will be arrested by the Hungarian police.
(d) They will be arrested by the Austrian police.

5. How many euros does the taxi driver transporting Mahmoud and his family demand at gunpoint?
(a) 300.
(b) 500.
(c) 900.
(d) 100.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Josef's family members is left behind when the ship leaves the Cuban harbor?

2. What is the outcome of Josef's mother's attempt to bribe the Nazis?

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

4. Mahmoud's family makes the decision not to wait in Athens to acquire what items?

5. What is NOT a way in which Josef's father has changed since being imprisoned in a concentration camp?

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