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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what object does Isabel's father cut her baby brother's umbilical cord once he is born on Miami Beach?
(a) A pocketknife.
(b) A length of wire.
(c) A bottle opener.
(d) A pair of scissors.

2. What reason does Isabel's father give for forbidding anyone to strike a match even though their boat is about to be hit by a tanker?
(a) Being saved will result in being sent back to Cuba.
(b) The tanker is likely manned by human traffickers.
(c) He does not want them to waste their few matches.
(d) He thinks the current wind will immediately extinguish the flame.

3. What is the reason that Mahmoud's family's boat begins to fill with water on their journey to the island?
(a) It begins to rain.
(b) The boat is struck by another boat.
(c) The boat's tar patch begins to fail.
(d) The boat develops a hole from an unknown cause.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Isabel and her family learn where they have actually landed in their boat, what does an official tell them will happen if they come all the way ashore?

2. What does Officer Padron do when the passengers of Josef's ship rush the ship ladder?

3. To what concentration camp is Josef's father sent whee he is taken into "protective custody" (3)?

4. When Mahmoud and his family wait at the border between Greece and Macedonia, what is NOT one way Mahmoud feels?

5. For what reason has Josef's family recently moved to a smaller apartment in Berlin upon the opening of the novel?

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