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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who attacks the Josef and the other children with anti-Semitic abuse during their tour of the ship?
2. Contrary to the truth, what does Ivan tell Isabel that he and his father are building in their garage?
3. To what concentration camp is Josef's father sent whee he is taken into "protective custody" (3)?
4. The Nazis who storm Josef's family's home are never depicted directly by the author. Instead, what word is used to refer to them throughout the scene?
5. Who is the subject of the portrait that the rabbi asks Captain Schroeder to remove during the bar mitzvah on the ship?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Isabel and Ivan are incredulous that Lito had had many chances to leave Cuba over the years and had not done so, what reasons does Lito give for not leaving?
2. Of everyone in Mahmoud's family, who comes the closest to losing his or her life when the apartment is hit by a missile?
3. List some of Isabel's and the other boat passengers' expectations of what life will be like in America.
4. What does Mahmoud buy for his little brother Waleed at a shop in the Turkish refugee camp and what does he hope to achieve with his purchase?
5. How is the the ship Josef's family boards shown by the author to be paradoxical?
6. Why does Mahmoud's family choose Germany as a place to run to when they leave Syria?
7. What U.S. policies change and make it harder for Cuban people to seek refuge in the United States?
8. What is the clave?
9. What are the only items that Isabel and the other passengers on the tiny boat have room to bring with them on the journey to Florida from Cuba?
10. How does the author go about portraying Mahmoud as an empathetic soul?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How do the themes of deception and secrecy function within the novel and what is the author's message regarding these themes?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the author's choices to tell the story of Refugee using the third-person omniscient point of view and to focus on three different child refugees across the narrative. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to these choices and what is the author's intended effect on the reader?
Essay Topic 3
What is the novel's message concerning the link between ignorance and hatred?
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