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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 141-215.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Mahmoud and his family are waiting in line to gain admission to Turkey, Mahmoud notices that none of the Syrian children are crying or performing what other action?
(a) Eating.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Playing.
(d) Talking.

4. When Isabel thinks of her family's journey as a song, she thinks that what events would constitute the first verse?
(a) The trip from Cuba to the Dominican Republic.
(b) The trip from the Bahamas to Florida.
(c) The riots and the bartering for gasoline.
(d) The tanker and the storm.

5. 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) 2001.
(b) 1994.
(c) 2015.
(d) 1981.

Short Answer Questions

1. Just before Mahmoud tumbles from the boat into the sea, someone at the front of the dinghy yells that he sees what objects?

2. When Isabel and her family learn where they have actually landed in their boat, what does an official tell them will happen if they come all the way ashore?

3. What is Josef's father's profession at the start of the novel?

4. To what type of structure does the boy lead Mahmoud and his family?

5. What major revelation does Isabel's mother make while the boat's passengers are waiting to see the lights of Miami?

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