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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Then narrator describes the fast-approaching tanker heading toward Isabel's boat as eventually getting so loud that it sounds like a what?
(a) A tornado.
(b) A hurricane.
(c) A stream of freeway traffic.
(d) A jet engine.

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

3. What is NOT among Fidel Castro's oft-repeated list of the three greatest achievements of the Cuban Revolution?
(a) Education.
(b) Public health.
(c) Sports.
(d) Agriculture.

4. What does Ivan want to be when he grows up?
(a) A marine biologist.
(b) A professional soccer player.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A professional baseball player.

5. How does Isabel's father sustain the wounds that she is cleaning when the narrative rejoins her?
(a) He is shot in the melee of the riots.
(b) He falls off a ladder at his job.
(c) He is beaten by a mugger.
(d) He is beaten by police.

6. Contrary to the truth, what does Ivan tell Isabel that he and his father are building in their garage?
(a) A skateboard ramp.
(b) A doghouse.
(c) A birdhouse.
(d) A ping pong table.

7. What is Josef's father's profession at the start of the novel?
(a) Tailor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Reporter.
(d) Doctor.

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

9. When Josef and the children are below deck during their ship tour, Schiendick and his friends begin to sing a song with anti-Semitic lyrics. What is the subject of the song?
(a) The Fuhrer.
(b) German blood.
(c) Jewish blood.
(d) The Third Reich.

10. Isabel knows that Ivan and his father are actually building a boat in order to travel where?
(a) To Mexico.
(b) To the United States.
(c) To Canada.
(d) To the Dominican Republic.

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

12. For what transgression do the Nazis say they are taking Josef's father into "protective custody" (3)?
(a) For practicing medicine as a Jewish man.
(b) For practicing law as a Jewish man.
(c) For writing a newspaper article about the Nazis' violence.
(d) For continuing to run his tailoring business as a Jewish man.

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

14. Risking his life by running through gunfire back to the car, Mahmoud's father retrieves what object from the car?
(a) A cell phone.
(b) A stuffed rabbit.
(c) A flashlight.
(d) A gun.

15. In order to avail themselves of the smuggler's help, Mahmoud and his family must first make it to what city on the coast of Turkey?
(a) Ankara.
(b) Istanbul.
(c) Izmir.
(d) Antalya.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of Jewish ceremony do the people on Josef's ship hold during the journey?

2. Ivan's favorite team, The Industriales, is what type of team?

3. During Isabel's boat journey, her grandfather Lito tells her that she does have family in what part of the world?

4. When the narrative rejoins Josef in 1939, each member of the family is now wearing what item?

5. Whose face is featured prominently on the floor of Isabel's boat?

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