View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Isabel's father sustain the wounds that she is cleaning when the narrative rejoins her?
(a) He falls off a ladder at his job.
(b) He is beaten by police.
(c) He is shot in the melee of the riots.
(d) He is beaten by a mugger.

2. In what activity are Isabel and the other boat passengers engaging when Ivan is attacked by a shark?
(a) They are planning Ivan's upcoming birthday.
(b) They are trying to name the boat.
(c) They are trying to decide what to tell the authorities in Florida.
(d) They are composing a song about the journey.

3. When Mahmoud and his family reach the border of Hungary, what are the Hungarian soldiers doing?
(a) Loading their weapons.
(b) Sewing red armbands.
(c) Building a fence.
(d) Putting on riot gear.

4. What kind of engine is powering Isabel's boat?
(a) A car engine.
(b) A lawnmower engine.
(c) A truck engine.
(d) A motorcycle engine.

5. What is NOT listed among the items provided by the tourists who help Isabel and the other passengers?
(a) Bottles of water.
(b) Aspirin.
(c) Life jackets.
(d) Bags of chips.

Short Answer Questions

1. Just before Mahmoud tumbles from the boat into the sea, someone at the front of the dinghy yells that he sees what objects?

2. How many hours does the map on Mahmoud's phone say it will take his family to walk to the country he suggests?

3. Who confesses that many years ago in Cuba, he had turned away a boat full of refugees?

4. Then narrator describes the fast-approaching tanker heading toward Isabel's boat as eventually getting so loud that it sounds like a what?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 337 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample