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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sight helps motivate Isabel's will to pull the heavy boat onto shore once the family reaches Miami?
(a) Her father's grim face.
(b) A group of welcoming tourists.
(c) The birth of her baby sister.
(d) The Coast Guard ship.

2. For what reason has Josef's family recently moved to a smaller apartment in Berlin upon the opening of the novel?
(a) Due to an altercation with the landlord of the previous apartment.
(b) Due to recently-enacted Nazi laws.
(c) Due to their previous apartment being destroyed by a missile.
(d) Due to Josef's father losing his job.

3. What happens to halt the song being sung by the occupants of Isabel's boat?
(a) Lita tells them all to hush so she can think.
(b) The boat's motor splutters and dies.
(c) Ivan shouts that he sees a boat on the horizon.
(d) Isabel shouts that she sees a shark.

4. When four European countries agree to split the refugees on Josef's ship among them, what is NOT one country on the list?
(a) Holland.
(b) France.
(c) Belgium.
(d) Germany.

5. When Mahmoud and his family finally reach Greece, no one is celebrating and Mahmoud says he knows why. What reason does Mahmoud give for the refugees' lack of celebration?
(a) They have heard that Greece has decided to return all Syrian refugees to Syria.
(b) They know that the most dangerous leg of the trip is still to come.
(c) Too many of them had lost loved ones in the sea on the way over.
(d) They are too tired to do much of anything.

Short Answer Questions

1. The third major character focused upon within the novel's narrative is Mahmoud, a boy living in Syria. What year is it when the reader first joins Mahmoud?

2. What does Josef's mother offer to the Nazis who find the family in their school room hiding place?

3. Who sews Ruthie's stuffed bunny back together before she can see it headless?

4. For what transgression do the Nazis say they are taking Josef's father into "protective custody" (3)?

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

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