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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 270-317.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Josef's mother take Ruthie so that she can enact her plan to calm her husband?
(a) To the gymnasium.
(b) To the library.
(c) To a puppet show.
(d) To the pool.

2. When Shabbos arrives, the bulletin board on Josef's ship announces that the social hall will be converted into a what?
(a) A synagogue.
(b) A dance floor.
(c) A reception hall.
(d) A medical clinic.

3. Who does not attend Josef's bar mitzvah, much to Josef's dismay?
(a) Josef's father.
(b) Josef's sister.
(c) Josef's best friend.
(d) Josef's mother.

4. What item falls out of Josef's pocket and is stomped on by a member of the Hitler Youth?
(a) His glasses.
(b) His yarmulke.
(c) His armband.
(d) His photograph of his grandfather.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, most farms in Cuba had been what type of farms?

2. Isabel's grandfather Lito makes her angry on the boat by telling her that her father is a what?

3. What is eventually the only part of Isabel's family's boat that remains unsplintered?

4. Though Mahmoud and his family are impossibly exhausted during their walk to their destination country, they do not stop. What do they know will happen if they stop?

5. After whom is Isabel's baby brother named?

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