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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 270-317.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sight helps motivate Isabel's will to pull the heavy boat onto shore once the family reaches Miami?
(a) A group of welcoming tourists.
(b) The birth of her baby sister.
(c) Her father's grim face.
(d) The Coast Guard ship.

2. How many refugees are expected to board the inflatable rubber dinghy used by the smugglers hired by Mahmoud's father?
(a) 60.
(b) 30.
(c) 12.
(d) 90.

3. For what reason has Josef's family recently moved to a smaller apartment in Berlin upon the opening of the novel?
(a) Due to an altercation with the landlord of the previous apartment.
(b) Due to their previous apartment being destroyed by a missile.
(c) Due to Josef's father losing his job.
(d) Due to recently-enacted Nazi laws.

4. In response to Lito's claim that Isabel is giving up her Cuban identity by leaving, Isabel's mother tells him that "Miami is just" (102) what?
(a) South Canada.
(b) An hour's journey away.
(c) North Cuba.
(d) North Latin America.

5. When Isabel's narrative opens, she is trying to coax a kitten out from hiding using what type of food?
(a) Yogurt.
(b) Sour cream.
(c) Chicken.
(d) Beans.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Josef's father disappears from the family's cabin in Josef's absence, where does he turn out to have gone?

2. For what transgression do the Nazis say they are taking Josef's father into "protective custody" (3)?

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. What type of Jewish ceremony do the people on Josef's ship hold during the journey?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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