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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Cuba to the Dominican Republic.
(b) The tanker and the storm.
(c) The trip from the Bahamas to Florida.
(d) The riots and the bartering for gasoline.

2. 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) Poland.
(b) Germany.
(c) Lesbos.
(d) Cypress.

3. What is the reason that Mahmoud's family's boat begins to fill with water on their journey to the island?
(a) The boat's tar patch begins to fail.
(b) The boat develops a hole from an unknown cause.
(c) It begins to rain.
(d) The boat is struck by another boat.

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

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

6. When Isabel searches for Ivan's Industriales hat, where does she find it?
(a) Under a bench on the boat.
(b) In Senora Castillo's hand.
(c) Floating in the water next to the boat.
(d) Tangled up in a sweatshirt.

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

8. What does Captain Schroeder say had happened when he sought to meet with President Bru?
(a) He says that the president is sympathetic but his hands are tied.
(b) He says that the president had been unsympathetic to the refugees' plights.
(c) He says the president would not meet with him.
(d) He says that the president had been assassinated two days before his visit.

9. 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 turns the man toward Mecca.
(b) He shuts the man's eyes.
(c) He washes the man's face.
(d) He says a funeral prayer.

10. The narrator states that Isabel had been so close to Ivan that he felt to her more like a what than like a best friend?
(a) A brother.
(b) An uncle.
(c) A guardian angel.
(d) A cousin.

11. After whom is Josef named?
(a) His father.
(b) His godfather.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His grandfather.

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

13. When Isabel and her family learn where they have actually landed in their boat, what does an official tell them will happen if they come all the way ashore?
(a) They will be deported back to Cuba.
(b) They will be held in a detention center.
(c) They will be imprisoned immediately.
(d) They will be granted sanctuary.

14. 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 confront Schiendick.
(b) He has gone to the captain's quarters.
(c) He has jumped into the ocean.
(d) He has gone to the ship cafeteria.

15. What words does Josef's father scream throughout his rescue from the ocean?
(a) "Get away!"
(b) "Vengeance will be mine!"
(c) "Please help me!"
(d) "Let me die!"

Short Answer Questions

1. What major revelation does Isabel's mother make while the boat's passengers are waiting to see the lights of Miami?

2. What does Ivan's mother Señora Castillo do just before Ivan's body is buried at sea?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. How long does it take Josef's ship to sail from Havana to within viewing distance of Miami?

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