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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. What does Captain Schroeder say had happened when he sought to meet with President Bru?
2. As the passengers are chanting in desperation, who does Josef see lingering in the doorway and smiling?
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?
4. 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?
5. What does Ivan's mother Señora Castillo do just before Ivan's body is buried at sea?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what purpose does Josef leave his father Aaron alone in the family's cabin when his mother is asleep?
2. How are the roles of father and son reversed within the scene when Schiendick leaves Josef and his family alone in their cabin after tormenting them?
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. 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?
5. Though the narrator states that a few of the refugees Mahmoud sees when boarding the dinghy have backpacks or plastic bags, how are most of the refugees carrying their belongings?
6. How does Josef's mother's plan for getting a sleeping potion for her husband Aaron go awry?
7. What about Waleed's reaction to being held at gunpoint worries Mahmoud about his brother even more than before?
8. What is Josef's mother's plan for procuring a sleeping potion to help calm her husband Aaron down?
9. 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?
10. What reason is given for why Isabel has never been to church?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the novel's message concerning the link between ignorance and hatred?
Essay Topic 2
Write a critical essay about the novel while using the critical power theory lens of Marxist theory. Use textual evidence to back up your strong, specific claim regarding the novel's treatment of issues such as class, socioeconomic status, and humanitarian aid.
Essay Topic 3
How do the themes of deception and secrecy function within the novel and what is the author's message regarding these themes?
This section contains 1,225 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) |
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