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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What item does Josef buy when he sneaks into the dining car?
(a) A newspaper.
(b) A cup of hot chocolate.
(c) A cup of coffee.
(d) A sandwich.

2. Of the refugees boarding the dinghy with Mahmoud's family, what does the narrator say is the kind of person constituting the majority of the passengers?
(a) Young men.
(b) Middle-aged men.
(c) Young families.
(d) Young women.

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

4. When Isabel first sees the lights of Miami, what does she think she is seeing instead?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Stars.
(c) A planet.
(d) Lightning.

5. What type of Jewish ceremony do the people on Josef's ship hold during the journey?
(a) A bar mitzvah.
(b) A naming ceremony.
(c) A bat mitzvah.
(d) A bris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the age difference between Isabel and Ivan?

2. When Ivan says that one thing he wants to do in America is watch American television, what show does he cite?

3. The narrator states that Isabel had been so close to Ivan that he felt to her more like a what than like a best friend?

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?

5. How does Isabel's father sustain the wounds that she is cleaning when the narrative rejoins her?

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