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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. How many refugees are expected to board the inflatable rubber dinghy used by the smugglers hired by Mahmoud's father?
2. Where does Josef's mother take Ruthie so that she can enact her plan to calm her husband?
3. Which of Josef's family members is left behind when the ship leaves the Cuban harbor?
4. 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?
5. Why is Lito alarmed when a passenger shoots at the sharks in the water with his pistol?
Short Essay Questions
1. What change occurs in Josef's mother's personality once the MS St. Louis leaves Cuba?
2. What occurs when Isabel and her family realize they have landed on the Bahamas?
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. What is Josef's mother's plan for procuring a sleeping potion to help calm her husband Aaron down?
5. How does Josef's mother's plan for getting a sleeping potion for her husband Aaron go awry?
6. What shocking detail does Mahmoud's father reveal to his family once they have been thrown into the water by their dinghy's destruction on the rocks?
7. 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?
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. How do Mahmoud and his family reach the Serbian border on their journey fleeing Syria?
10. What details does Isabel remember about her grandmother Lita's death?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of The Individual versus Society is demonstrated within Alan Gratz's Refugee.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss how and why the author instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Alan Gratz's Refugee.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the interplay between the resolution of the novel and one of the novel's main messages. How does the author make connections between these elements and how does their juxtaposition help the author get across one main message of the novel?
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