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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 is NOT listed among the items provided by the tourists who help Isabel and the other passengers?
2. Who rescues Josef's father Aaron from the sea after Aaron jumps overboard?
3. What is NOT one thing Josef realizes just after his father's rescue from the ocean?
4. To whom does Mahmoud give the deceased man's life jacket?
5. Where does the Greek Coast Guard take Mahmoud and the other refugees at dawn once the boat is full of people?
Short Essay Questions
1. What details does Isabel remember about her grandmother Lita's death?
2. What reason is given for why Isabel has never been to church?
3. 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?
4. For what purpose does Josef leave his father Aaron alone in the family's cabin when his mother is asleep?
5. For what reasons does Lito take on the role of leading Ivan's funeral ceremony?
6. What change occurs in Josef's mother's personality once the MS St. Louis leaves Cuba?
7. 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?
8. When Isabel realizes that each part of the journey has been like the verse of a song, what results does she come up with when thinking of the various verses the song would include?
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 is Josef's mother's plan for procuring a sleeping potion to help calm her husband Aaron down?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explicate the theme of family bonds within the novel. What is the author's message regarding family bonds and how do you know?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss how the author goes about building the readers' compassion for the refugees featured in the narrative.
Essay Topic 3
What is the novel's message concerning the link between ignorance and hatred?
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