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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 216-269.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Lighthouses.
(b) Lightning strikes.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Rescue boats.

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

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

4. How many Jewish men must gather to form a minyan in order to comply with Jewish law in the holding of a bar mitzvah?
(a) At least 22.
(b) At least 10.
(c) At least 5.
(d) At least 7.

5. When Isabel pleads with Lito not to turn back for Cuba, what reason does she cite above all others?
(a) That her father will be arrested.
(b) That they will all be arrested.
(c) That her grandfather will be arrested.
(d) That Ivan will be arrested.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what location does a taxi driver offer to drive Mahmoud and his family if they give him 24,000 Syrian pounds?

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

3. 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?

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

5. The narrator remarks that despite the number of dead bodies Mahmoud has seen, the experience of "seeing death" (180) never stops being what?

(see the answer key)

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