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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Josef's family is traveling on a train in order to get on a ship headed for what country?
(a) Columbia.
(b) The United States.
(c) Germany.
(d) Cuba.

2. To what country does Mahmoud tell his family they should walk once they are marching down the Hungarian highway with the other refugees?
(a) Austria.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Germany.
(d) Greece.

3. When Josef's ship's engines roar to life for the first time since arriving in a Cuban harbor, where do the passengers believe the ship will be going next?
(a) Cypress.
(b) Germany.
(c) Lesbos.
(d) Poland.

4. Who confesses that many years ago in Cuba, he had turned away a boat full of refugees?
(a) Senor Castillo.
(b) Lito.
(c) Lita.
(d) Luis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The third major character focused upon within the novel's narrative is Mahmoud, a boy living in Syria. What year is it when the reader first joins Mahmoud?

2. When Josef's father is in the throes of a mental breakdown, he tells Josef that each night at the concentration camp, the prisoners were forced to watch one prisoner do what?

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

4. Who appears next to Josef's ship and manages to convince authorities to release his two daughters from the ship?

5. Ivan's favorite team, The Industriales, is what type of team?

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