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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a boy offers to show Mahmoud and his family somewhere they can sleep, how much money does he charge them for the information?
(a) 1,000 Syrian pounds or about $5 American dollars.
(b) 6,000 Syrian pounds or about $30 American dollars.
(c) 2,000 Syrian pounds or about $10 American dollars.
(d) 500 Syrian pounds or about $2.50 American dollars.

2. How many Jewish men must gather to form a minyan in order to comply with Jewish law in the holding of a bar mitzvah?
(a) At least 10.
(b) At least 22.
(c) At least 7.
(d) At least 5.

3. When Isabel and the others are getting ready to start their journey in the boat, two police officers run toward them. Who do they turn out to be?
(a) Ivan's sister and her boyfriend.
(b) Ivan's cousins.
(c) Ivan's brother and his girlfriend.
(d) Ivan's aunt and uncle.

4. Who takes on the role of being "in charge of the boat" (81) on which Isabel and her family are traveling?
(a) Luis.
(b) Lito.
(c) Ivan.
(d) Señor Castillo.

5. When Josef and the children are below deck during their ship tour, Schiendick and his friends begin to sing a song with anti-Semitic lyrics. What is the subject of the song?
(a) German blood.
(b) The Fuhrer.
(c) The Third Reich.
(d) Jewish blood.

6. Who does not attend Josef's bar mitzvah, much to Josef's dismay?
(a) Josef's sister.
(b) Josef's best friend.
(c) Josef's mother.
(d) Josef's father.

7. Contrary to the truth, what does Ivan tell Isabel that he and his father are building in their garage?
(a) A birdhouse.
(b) A ping pong table.
(c) A skateboard ramp.
(d) A doghouse.

8. Josef's family is traveling on a train in order to get on a ship headed for what country?
(a) The United States.
(b) Germany.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Cuba.

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

10. When Mahmoud's family receives the name of a nearby hotel that "accepts Syrians" (105), why do they not stay there?
(a) It is already full of other families sharing rooms.
(b) It is too expensive.
(c) They cannot find it and eventually give up.
(d) It is in a dangerous neighborhood.

11. 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 storm.
(b) An approaching tanker.
(c) A man who has been reported missing.
(d) A funeral at sea.

12. What item falls out of Josef's pocket and is stomped on by a member of the Hitler Youth?
(a) His armband.
(b) His yarmulke.
(c) His photograph of his grandfather.
(d) His glasses.

13. Who gives Mahmoud's father directions that will keep the family away from major sites of fighting?
(a) Priests.
(b) Nuns.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Missionaries.

14. 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) Istanbul.
(c) Ankara.
(d) Izmir.

15. What item does Josef's little sister Ruthie carry with her at all times?
(a) Her stuffed rabbit.
(b) Her teddy bear.
(c) Her blanket.
(d) Her stuffed turtle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, most farms in Cuba had been what type of farms?

2. 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?

3. What does Mahmoud buy for his brother Waleed in one of the shops at the refugee camp in Turkey?

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?

5. What words are painted underneath the portrait painted on the bottom of Isabel's boat?

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