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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What show is Waleed watching when the family's apartment is destroyed by a missile?
(a) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
(b) The Smurfs.
(c) Teletubbies.
(d) Power Rangers.

2. The third major character focused upon within the novel's narrative is Mahmoud, a boy living in Syria. What year is it when the reader first joins Mahmoud?
(a) 1994.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1981.

3. What does Isabel give the fisherman in return for gasoline to power Ivan's family's boat?
(a) A coat.
(b) A backpack.
(c) Mofongo.
(d) A trumpet.

4. Who is the subject of the portrait that the rabbi asks Captain Schroeder to remove during the bar mitzvah on the ship?
(a) Adolf Hitler.
(b) Joseph Stalin.
(c) Fidel Castro.
(d) Benito Mussolini.

5. When Josef's ship slows down, causing his father to think that the ship is being turned around, what is the true cause of the change in speed?
(a) A funeral at sea.
(b) An approaching storm.
(c) A man who has been reported missing.
(d) An approaching tanker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Isabel's grandfather Lito makes her angry on the boat by telling her that her father is a what?

2. Risking his life by running through gunfire back to the car, Mahmoud's father retrieves what object from the car?

3. Who attacks the Josef and the other children with anti-Semitic abuse during their tour of the ship?

4. When the narrative rejoins Josef in 1939, each member of the family is now wearing what item?

5. Who gives Mahmoud's father directions that will keep the family away from major sites of fighting?

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