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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 does Mahmoud buy for his brother Waleed in one of the shops at the refugee camp in Turkey?
(a) A stuffed zebra.
(b) A stuffed Teletubby.
(c) A stuffed teddy bear.
(d) A stuffed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

2. 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.

3. Who sews Ruthie's stuffed bunny back together before she can see it headless?
(a) Josef's mother.
(b) Captain Schroeder.
(c) Josef.
(d) Otto Scheindick.

4. To what type of structure does the boy lead Mahmoud and his family?
(a) To an abandoned shopping mall.
(b) To a library.
(c) To a bus depot.
(d) To an abandoned hospital.

5. What are piropos?
(a) Beaches.
(b) Coats.
(c) Fried dough pockets filled with meat.
(d) Flirtatious compliments Cuban men say to women on the street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What words are painted underneath the portrait painted on the bottom of Isabel's boat?

2. What type of Jewish ceremony do the people on Josef's ship hold during the journey?

3. In what activity are Isabel and the other boat passengers engaging when Ivan is attacked by a shark?

4. Where does Josef's mother take Ruthie so that she can enact her plan to calm her husband?

5. When Mahmoud cries with "exhaustion and misery" (192) while floating in the sea and wants "to do it all over again," what is NOT something he includes on the list of things he would do differently?

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