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) Rescue boats.
(b) Lighthouses.
(c) Lightning strikes.
(d) Rocks.

2. What does Mami say it is time for, once she puts a stop to the brewing argument on the boat?
(a) A water break.
(b) A truce.
(c) Paddling.
(d) Praying.

3. When Josef's ship's engines roar to life for the first time since arriving in a Cuban harbor, where do the passengers believe the ship will be going next?
(a) Germany.
(b) Poland.
(c) Cypress.
(d) Lesbos.

4. When Josef's father disappears from the family's cabin in Josef's absence, where does he turn out to have gone?
(a) He has gone to the captain's quarters.
(b) He has gone to confront Schiendick.
(c) He has gone to the ship cafeteria.
(d) He has jumped into the ocean.

5. Schiendick enrages Josef's father by saying that German law states that what object must be covered with the Nazi flag?
(a) The coffin of a deceased crew member.
(b) The ship's stock of water.
(c) The door of the captain's quarters.
(d) A body buried at sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Josef's father is in the throes of a mental breakdown, he tells Josef that each night at the concentration camp, the prisoners were forced to watch one prisoner do what?

2. When Isabel searches for Ivan's Industriales hat, where does she find it?

3. When Mahmoud's family receives the name of a nearby hotel that "accepts Syrians" (105), why do they not stay there?

4. Who pulls Isabel hurriedly into the boat in order to save her from being attacked by the shark who has bitten Ivan?

5. To what concentration camp is Josef's father sent whee he is taken into "protective custody" (3)?

(see the answer key)

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