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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Josef overhears two stewards talking about racing other boats to Cuba, how many other boats do they say are traveling their route?
(a) 11.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

2. Who gives Mahmoud's father directions that will keep the family away from major sites of fighting?
(a) Nuns.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Missionaries.
(d) Priests.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year does the telling of Josef's narrative begin?

3. 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?

4. Contrary to the truth, what does Ivan tell Isabel that he and his father are building in their garage?

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

(see the answer key)

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