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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the passengers are chanting in desperation, who does Josef see lingering in the doorway and smiling?
(a) Ruthie.
(b) Schiendick.
(c) Captain Schroeder.
(d) Josef's father.

2. What item do Isabel and Amara work together to break away from the boat so they can throw it overboard and reduce the rapidity of the capsizing process?
(a) The portrait of Fidel Castro.
(b) A bench.
(c) The engine.
(d) The cooler.

3. When Mahmoud cries with "exhaustion and misery" (192) while floating in the sea and wants "to do it all over again," what is NOT something he includes on the list of things he would do differently?
(a) He would scream and awaken the citizens of Izmir so they would see him.
(b) He would force the people who had taken Hana to take his mother as well.
(c) He would tell Bashir al-Assad and his army to go to hell.
(d) He would stand up for the boy being robbed of his bread in the alley.

4. The narrator remarks that despite the number of dead bodies Mahmoud has seen, the experience of "seeing death" (180) never stops being what?
(a) Alarming.
(b) Sad.
(c) Deadening.
(d) Horrifying.

5. When Isabel thinks of her family's journey as a song, she thinks that what events would constitute the first verse?
(a) The trip from the Bahamas to Florida.
(b) The riots and the bartering for gasoline.
(c) The trip from Cuba to the Dominican Republic.
(d) The tanker and the storm.

6. What phrase does Mahmoud think to himself over and over once he is hit by tear gas at the hands of Hungarian soldiers?
(a) "I can't die here."
(b) "I'm going to die."
(c) "Please no."
(d) "I can't breathe."

7. What does Mahmoud do to honor his deceased fellow passenger when he takes the man's life jacket and buries him at sea?
(a) He washes the man's face.
(b) He says a funeral prayer.
(c) He shuts the man's eyes.
(d) He turns the man toward Mecca.

8. In the moments after Isabel and the other passengers see Miami, what event happens?
(a) Luis jumps off the boat and starts to swim.
(b) They bury Ivan at sea.
(c) Their boat motor dies.
(d) Their boat starts sinking.

9. When Mahmoud and his family wait at the border between Greece and Macedonia, what is NOT one way Mahmoud feels?
(a) Illegal.
(b) Dirty.
(c) Unwanted.
(d) Invisible.

10. 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 are too tired to do much of anything.
(c) They know that the most dangerous leg of the trip is still to come.
(d) Too many of them had lost loved ones in the sea on the way over.

11. When Isabel and her family finally reach land and believe they have reached Florida, where have they landed instead?
(a) The Dominican Republic.
(b) Puerto Rico.
(c) The Bahamas.
(d) Turks and Caicos.

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

13. How many euros does the taxi driver transporting Mahmoud and his family demand at gunpoint?
(a) 100.
(b) 500.
(c) 300.
(d) 900.

14. What percentage of the adult fare does the smuggler engaged by Mahmoud's father charge for children and babies?
(a) 100%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 25%.

15. Who pulls Isabel hurriedly into the boat in order to save her from being attacked by the shark who has bitten Ivan?
(a) Lito.
(b) Isabel's mother Mami.
(c) Senor Castillo.
(d) Isabel's father Papi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the man who saves Josef's father and is later celebrated for his heroism at a reception on the ship?

2. What is the reason that Mahmoud's family's boat begins to fill with water on their journey to the island?

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

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

5. Just before Mahmoud tumbles from the boat into the sea, someone at the front of the dinghy yells that he sees what objects?

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