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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 appears next to Josef's ship and manages to convince authorities to release his two daughters from the ship?
2. In the moments after Isabel and the other passengers see Miami, what event happens?
3. When Josef's father is in the throes of a mental breakdown, he tells Josef that each night at the concentration camp, the prisoners were forced to watch one prisoner do what?
4. How many euros does the taxi driver transporting Mahmoud and his family demand at gunpoint?
5. The narrator states that Isabel had been so close to Ivan that he felt to her more like a what than like a best friend?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Isabel not want to look at the face of her dead best friend Ivan?
2. What reason is given for why Isabel has never been to church?
3. What is Josef's mother's plan for procuring a sleeping potion to help calm her husband Aaron down?
4. 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?
5. What about Waleed's reaction to being held at gunpoint worries Mahmoud about his brother even more than before?
6. What does Isabel mean when she thinks that "Fidel Castro has Ivan's blood all over him" (224)?
7. What change occurs in Josef's mother's personality once the MS St. Louis leaves Cuba?
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. For what reasons does Lito take on the role of leading Ivan's funeral ceremony?
10. For what purpose does Josef leave his father Aaron alone in the family's cabin when his mother is asleep?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the author's use of literary devices such as metaphor, simile, and personification. How are literary devices used by the author in order to support and underscore particular themes and messages within the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Trace the characterization arc of one of the three major characters in the novel. Discuss whether your chosen character is a round or flat character and whether your chosen character is a static or dynamic character.
Essay Topic 3
Sensory details are used frequently by the author in order to create vivid pictures of each major character's journey and progression through the narrative. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used by the author set a particular mood for each of the three scenes.
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