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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Ivan's favorite team, The Industriales, is what type of team?
(a) A baseball team.
(b) A lacrosse team.
(c) A basketball team.
(d) A soccer team.

3. To what concentration camp is Josef's father sent whee he is taken into "protective custody" (3)?
(a) Bergen-Belsen.
(b) Dachau.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Buchenwald.

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

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

6. Who gives Mahmoud's father directions that will keep the family away from major sites of fighting?
(a) Priests.
(b) Nuns.
(c) Missionaries.
(d) Soldiers.

7. Isabel's best friend Ivan is also her what?
(a) Her second cousin.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her business partner.
(d) Her neighbor.

8. What is the age difference between Isabel and Ivan?
(a) Ivan is two years older than Isabel.
(b) Isabel is one year older than Ivan.
(c) Isabel is two years older than Ivan.
(d) Ivan is one year older than Isabel.

9. 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 Josef's father losing his job.
(c) Due to recently-enacted Nazi laws.
(d) Due to their previous apartment being destroyed by a missile.

10. What is NOT a way in which Josef's father has changed since being imprisoned in a concentration camp?
(a) He has rage in his eyes.
(b) He is gaunt.
(c) He is thin.
(d) He is paranoid.

11. Whose face is featured prominently on the floor of Isabel's boat?
(a) Che Guevara.
(b) Pablo Escobar.
(c) Fidel Castro.
(d) Joseph Stalin.

12. What words are painted underneath the portrait painted on the bottom of Isabel's boat?
(a) Seek sanctuary.
(b) Fight against the impossible and win.
(c) Never say die.
(d) Cuba Libre.

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

14. What type of Jewish ceremony do the people on Josef's ship hold during the journey?
(a) A bris.
(b) A bar mitzvah.
(c) A bat mitzvah.
(d) A naming ceremony.

15. What shared characteristic had bonded the Soviet Union to Cuba prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Egalitarianism.
(d) Democracy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year does the telling of Josef's narrative begin?

3. Who takes on the role of being "in charge of the boat" (81) on which Isabel and her family are traveling?

4. What item does Josef's little sister Ruthie carry with her at all times?

5. In response to Lito's claim that Isabel is giving up her Cuban identity by leaving, Isabel's mother tells him that "Miami is just" (102) what?

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