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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 73-140.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Izmir.
(b) Istanbul.
(c) Ankara.
(d) Antalya.

2. When Mahmoud's family receives the name of a nearby hotel that "accepts Syrians" (105), why do they not stay there?
(a) It is too expensive.
(b) They cannot find it and eventually give up.
(c) It is already full of other families sharing rooms.
(d) It is in a dangerous neighborhood.

3. 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?
(a) The Third Reich.
(b) German blood.
(c) The Fuhrer.
(d) Jewish blood.

4. Who takes Josef and the other children on a tour of the ship?
(a) Captain Schroeder.
(b) Schiendick.
(c) Petty Officer Jockl.
(d) Josef's mother.

5. To what concentration camp is Josef's father sent whee he is taken into "protective custody" (3)?
(a) Bergen-Belsen.
(b) Buchenwald.
(c) Dachau.
(d) Auschwitz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mahmoud buy for his brother Waleed in one of the shops at the refugee camp in Turkey?

2. What item falls out of Josef's pocket and is stomped on by a member of the Hitler Youth?

3. Whose face is featured prominently on the floor of Isabel's boat?

4. What show is Waleed watching when the family's apartment is destroyed by a missile?

5. Isabel knows that Ivan and his father are actually building a boat in order to travel where?

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