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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Their boat starts sinking.
(c) Their boat motor dies.
(d) They bury Ivan at sea.

3. Of the refugees boarding the dinghy with Mahmoud's family, what does the narrator say is the kind of person constituting the majority of the passengers?
(a) Young men.
(b) Middle-aged men.
(c) Young families.
(d) Young women.

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

5. 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 know that the most dangerous leg of the trip is still to come.
(c) Too many of them had lost loved ones in the sea on the way over.
(d) They have heard that Greece has decided to return all Syrian refugees to Syria.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Greek Coast Guard take Mahmoud and the other refugees at dawn once the boat is full of people?

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

3. When Isabel searches for Ivan's Industriales hat, where does she find it?

4. What is NOT an item Mahmoud sees upon disembarking from the Greek Coast Guard boat?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Josef's mother's plan for getting a sleeping potion for her husband Aaron go awry?

2. On the second day of Isabel's journey, it is said that it seems to Isabel and Ivan that everyone has a job but the two of them. What jobs are being handled by the others?

3. For what reason does Dr. Aber, the father of Renata and Evelyne, tell the girls to disembark from the ship without bringing any of their belongings?

4. How do Mahmoud and his family reach the Serbian border on their journey fleeing Syria?

5. Why does Isabel not want to look at the face of her dead best friend Ivan?

6. What is Josef's mother's plan for procuring a sleeping potion to help calm her husband Aaron down?

7. What happens to Mahmoud's family on the way from Belgrade to the Hungarian border?

8. What reaction do the other passengers of the MS St. Louis have to Renata and Evelyne being allowed to leave the ship to join their father?

9. Whenever Mahmoud or his father wonder where Mahmoud's mother is, where do they inevitably find her and what is she doing?

10. What about Waleed's reaction to being held at gunpoint worries Mahmoud about his brother even more than before?

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