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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Mahmoud give the deceased man's life jacket?
(a) His mother.
(b) His best friend.
(c) His father.
(d) His sister.

2. Who takes charge of performing the memorial service for Ivan before his body must be buried at sea?
(a) Lito.
(b) Senor Castillo.
(c) Isabel.
(d) Senora Castillo.

3. Where does the Greek Coast Guard take Mahmoud and the other refugees at dawn once the boat is full of people?
(a) Lesbos.
(b) Cypress.
(c) Tuscany.
(d) Sicily.

4. After Amara and Isabel's action that reduces the drag on the boat, who tells them that they have doomed every passenger on the boat?
(a) Luis.
(b) Señora Castillo.
(c) Lito.
(d) Señor Castillo.

5. When Isabel's boat is sinking and all the passengers are bailing furiously, what kind of craft approaches them suddenly?
(a) A Cuban Coast Guard boat.
(b) A rescue ship sent by Amnesty International.
(c) A Puerto Rican merchant ship.
(d) A U.S. Coast Guard boat.

6. What does Ivan's mother Señora Castillo do just before Ivan's body is buried at sea?
(a) She takes Ivan's hand.
(b) She gives Ivan a hug.
(c) She touches Ivan's chest.
(d) She kisses Ivan's forehead.

7. What is NOT one thing Josef realizes just after his father's rescue from the ocean?
(a) His mother is unconscious.
(b) His father is not the same man he had been before the concentration camp.
(c) His infant brother is missing.
(d) His little sister is by herself somewhere.

8. 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 are too tired to do much of anything.
(b) They have heard that Greece has decided to return all Syrian refugees to Syria.
(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.

9. What does Ivan's brother Luis do just before Ivan's body is buried at sea?
(a) He kisses Ivan's forehead.
(b) He gives Ivan a hug.
(c) He takes Ivan's hand.
(d) He touches Ivan's chest.

10. What does Mami say it is time for, once she puts a stop to the brewing argument on the boat?
(a) Paddling.
(b) A water break.
(c) A truce.
(d) Praying.

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

12. When Josef's ship's engines roar to life for the first time since arriving in a Cuban harbor, where do the passengers believe the ship will be going next?
(a) Cypress.
(b) Poland.
(c) Germany.
(d) Lesbos.

13. Who suggests that two of the boat's passengers get into the water and hang onto the boat in order to reduce the risk of capsizing?
(a) Mami.
(b) Lito.
(c) Papi.
(d) Isabel.

14. Who sews Ruthie's stuffed bunny back together before she can see it headless?
(a) Captain Schroeder.
(b) Josef.
(c) Josef's mother.
(d) Otto Scheindick.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What action does Waleed take throughout the entire robbery by the taxi driver, causing Mahmoud to worry about his emotional well-being?

2. Who rescues Josef's father Aaron from the sea after Aaron jumps overboard?

3. When Josef's father is in the throes of a mental breakdown, he tells Josef that each night at the concentration camp, the prisoners were forced to watch one prisoner do what?

4. While trying not to look at Ivan's lifeless body, Isabel thinks about the fact that who has "Ivan's blood all over him" (224)?

5. When Isabel thinks of her family's journey as a song, she thinks that what events would constitute the first verse?

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