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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 a puppet show.
(b) To the pool.
(c) To the library.
(d) To the gymnasium.

2. In what activity are Isabel and the other boat passengers engaging when Ivan is attacked by a shark?
(a) They are trying to decide what to tell the authorities in Florida.
(b) They are planning Ivan's upcoming birthday.
(c) They are trying to name the boat.
(d) They are composing a song about the journey.

3. In what year does the telling of Josef's narrative begin?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1946.

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

5. Who takes on the role of being "in charge of the boat" (81) on which Isabel and her family are traveling?
(a) Ivan.
(b) Lito.
(c) Luis.
(d) Señor Castillo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Greek Coast Guard take Mahmoud and the other refugees at dawn once the boat is full of people?

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

3. 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?

4. For what reason has Josef's family recently moved to a smaller apartment in Berlin upon the opening of the novel?

5. Isabel knows that Ivan and his father are actually building a boat in order to travel where?

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