View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Praying.
(d) A truce.

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 engine.
(b) The cooler.
(c) The portrait of Fidel Castro.
(d) A bench.

3. To what location does a taxi driver offer to drive Mahmoud and his family if they give him 24,000 Syrian pounds?
(a) Macedonia.
(b) Crete.
(c) Lesbos.
(d) Serbia.

4. 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 gymnasium.
(c) To the library.
(d) To the pool.

5. What kind of engine is powering Isabel's boat?
(a) A lawnmower engine.
(b) A truck engine.
(c) A car engine.
(d) A motorcycle engine.

6. When it gets too dark to navigate, what strategy does Isabel advocate for?
(a) Using the flashlight on their single cell phone to light their path.
(b) Using their single cell phone to call the Coast Guard.
(c) Using the stars for navigation.
(d) Stopping and waiting for dawn.

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

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. What type of humor is Mahmoud's father Youssef's trademark?
(a) Satire.
(b) Sarcasm.
(c) Knock-knock jokes.
(d) Puns.

10. 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)?
(a) President Bru.
(b) Senor Castillo.
(c) President Bill Clinton.
(d) Fidel Castro.

11. Just before Mahmoud tumbles from the boat into the sea, someone at the front of the dinghy yells that he sees what objects?
(a) Lighthouses.
(b) Rocks.
(c) Rescue boats.
(d) Lightning strikes.

12. Why is Lito alarmed when a passenger shoots at the sharks in the water with his pistol?
(a) Lito is worried that the sharks' blood will bring a greater number of sharks.
(b) Lito is worried that in his anger, Luis will hit a passenger by mistake.
(c) Lito thinks that Luis looks like he is having a mental breakdown.
(d) Lito does not want the group to waste their bullets.

13. When Josef's father disappears from the family's cabin in Josef's absence, where does he turn out to have gone?
(a) He has gone to the ship cafeteria.
(b) He has gone to confront Schiendick.
(c) He has gone to the captain's quarters.
(d) He has jumped into the ocean.

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

15. What is NOT an item Mahmoud sees upon disembarking from the Greek Coast Guard boat?
(a) A pile of life jackets.
(b) A rocky shore.
(c) Dead bodies.
(d) Food kiosks.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Josef's father Aaron barricades the door of the family's cabin, what is Josef's mother's plan to calm him?

2. 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?

3. For whom does Josef tear his clothing in recognition of his own loss of the person?

4. What percentage of the adult fare does the smuggler engaged by Mahmoud's father charge for children and babies?

5. When Isabel's boat is sinking and all the passengers are bailing furiously, what kind of craft approaches them suddenly?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 653 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample