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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 73-140.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to halt the song being sung by the occupants of Isabel's boat?
(a) Isabel shouts that she sees a shark.
(b) Ivan shouts that he sees a boat on the horizon.
(c) The boat's motor splutters and dies.
(d) Lita tells them all to hush so she can think.

2. In order to avail themselves of the smuggler's help, Mahmoud and his family must first make it to what city on the coast of Turkey?
(a) Antalya.
(b) Ankara.
(c) Izmir.
(d) Istanbul.

3. When Josef's ship slows down, causing his father to think that the ship is being turned around, what is the true cause of the change in speed?
(a) An approaching tanker.
(b) An approaching storm.
(c) A funeral at sea.
(d) A man who has been reported missing.

4. Who attacks the Josef and the other children with anti-Semitic abuse during their tour of the ship?
(a) Petty Officer Jockl.
(b) Officer Sturmer.
(c) Captain Schroeder.
(d) Schiendick.

5. To what concentration camp is Josef's father sent whee he is taken into "protective custody" (3)?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) Dachau.
(c) Bergen-Belsen.
(d) Buchenwald.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reason has Josef's family recently moved to a smaller apartment in Berlin upon the opening of the novel?

2. Isabel's grandfather Lito makes her angry on the boat by telling her that her father is a what?

3. The third major character focused upon within the novel's narrative is Mahmoud, a boy living in Syria. What year is it when the reader first joins Mahmoud?

4. During Isabel's boat journey, her grandfather Lito tells her that she does have family in what part of the world?

5. 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?

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