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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 does Ivan's mother Señora Castillo do just before Ivan's body is buried at sea?
(a) She gives Ivan a hug.
(b) She takes Ivan's hand.
(c) She touches Ivan's chest.
(d) She kisses Ivan's forehead.

2. How many months after Josef's family's arrival is France invaded by the Nazis?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

3. Isabel knows that Ivan and his father are actually building a boat in order to travel where?
(a) To Canada.
(b) To the United States.
(c) To Mexico.
(d) To the Dominican Republic.

4. The horrific historical event called Kristallnacht means what in the English language?
(a) The night of pointy reckonings.
(b) The night of hopelessness.
(c) The night of reverence.
(d) The night of broken glass.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not attend Josef's bar mitzvah, much to Josef's dismay?

2. When Josef and the children are below deck during their ship tour, Schiendick and his friends begin to sing a song with anti-Semitic lyrics. What is the subject of the song?

3. As the passengers are chanting in desperation, who does Josef see lingering in the doorway and smiling?

4. As Mahmoud and his family wait at the border between Greece and Macedonia, what is NOT a planned stop on the rest of their journey to safety?

5. What physical action does Lito take when Isabel holds up her new baby brother for her grandfather Lito to see?

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