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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many refugees are expected to board the inflatable rubber dinghy used by the smugglers hired by Mahmoud's father?
(a) 12.
(b) 90.
(c) 30.
(d) 60.

3. What island is the intended destination when Mahmoud and his family set out on the rubber dinghy?
(a) Sicily.
(b) Cypress.
(c) Lesbos.
(d) Athens.

4. Who rescues Josef's father Aaron from the sea after Aaron jumps overboard?
(a) Josef.
(b) A Puerto Rican doctor.
(c) A Cuban policeman.
(d) Ruthie.

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

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

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

8. When Isabel first sees the lights of Miami, what does she think she is seeing instead?
(a) Dawn.
(b) A planet.
(c) Lightning.
(d) Stars.

9. When Mahmoud and his family reach the border of Hungary, what are the Hungarian soldiers doing?
(a) Loading their weapons.
(b) Sewing red armbands.
(c) Building a fence.
(d) Putting on riot gear.

10. When Captain Schroeder assures the passengers of Josef's ship that they will not return to Germany, what other plan does he say he will be enacting?
(a) The ship will cruise the American coast, appealing to President Roosevelt.
(b) The ship will cruise the Canadian coast, appealing to the Prime Minister.
(c) The ship will next try to seek refuge in the Dominican Republic.
(d) The ship will attempt to let the passengers off on the island of Lesbos.

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom does Mahmoud give the deceased man's life jacket?

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

4. The narrator remarks that despite the number of dead bodies Mahmoud has seen, the experience of "seeing death" (180) never stops being what?

5. 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?

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