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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Poland.
(b) Germany.
(c) Cypress.
(d) Lesbos.

2. What does Josef's mother offer to the Nazis who find the family in their school room hiding place?
(a) Money.
(b) Diamonds.
(c) Food.
(d) Sex.

3. What happens to halt the song being sung by the occupants of Isabel's boat?
(a) Isabel shouts that she sees a shark.
(b) Ivan shouts that he sees a boat on the horizon.
(c) The boat's motor splutters and dies.
(d) Lita tells them all to hush so she can think.

4. As the passengers are chanting in desperation, who does Josef see lingering in the doorway and smiling?
(a) Schiendick.
(b) Ruthie.
(c) Josef's father.
(d) Captain Schroeder.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Isabel's narrative from Havana, Cuba begin?

2. When Josef's father disappears from the family's cabin in Josef's absence, where does he turn out to have gone?

3. Why is Lito alarmed when a passenger shoots at the sharks in the water with his pistol?

4. In order to avail themselves of the smuggler's help, Mahmoud and his family must first make it to what city on the coast of Turkey?

5. What is NOT one thing Josef realizes just after his father's rescue from the ocean?

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