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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who suggests that two of the boat's passengers get into the water and hang onto the boat in order to reduce the risk of capsizing?
(a) Papi.
(b) Lito.
(c) Mami.
(d) Isabel.

2. After whom is Josef named?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His godfather.
(c) His father.
(d) His grandfather.

3. Why is Lito alarmed when a passenger shoots at the sharks in the water with his pistol?
(a) Lito thinks that Luis looks like he is having a mental breakdown.
(b) Lito is worried that the sharks' blood will bring a greater number of sharks.
(c) Lito is worried that in his anger, Luis will hit a passenger by mistake.
(d) Lito does not want the group to waste their bullets.

4. What major revelation does Isabel's mother make while the boat's passengers are waiting to see the lights of Miami?
(a) She is pregnant with another child.
(b) She wants a divorce after they reach Florida.
(c) She has lost her baby.
(d) She is in labor.

5. When Josef's father Aaron barricades the door of the family's cabin, what is Josef's mother's plan to calm him?
(a) She will ask the ship's psychiatrist to visit him.
(b) She will visit the doctor and procure a tranquilizer for him.
(c) She will restrain him on the cabin bed.
(d) She will leave him alone for an hour so he can soothe himself.

6. Which of Josef's family members is left behind when the ship leaves the Cuban harbor?
(a) Josef's sister.
(b) Josef's cousin.
(c) Josef's mother.
(d) Josef's father.

7. After robbing Mahmoud's family at gunpoint, what does the taxi driver order the family to do?
(a) To give him their coats.
(b) To say nothing to the police.
(c) To get out of the cab.
(d) To work together to dig a ditch.

8. Who sews Ruthie's stuffed bunny back together before she can see it headless?
(a) Otto Scheindick.
(b) Josef.
(c) Josef's mother.
(d) Captain Schroeder.

9. 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?
(a) Drown.
(b) Be buried alive.
(c) Commit suicide by gunshot.
(d) Burn.

10. What does Mahmoud do to honor his deceased fellow passenger when he takes the man's life jacket and buries him at sea?
(a) He turns the man toward Mecca.
(b) He says a funeral prayer.
(c) He shuts the man's eyes.
(d) He washes the man's face.

11. After Amara and Isabel's action that reduces the drag on the boat, who tells them that they have doomed every passenger on the boat?
(a) Señora Castillo.
(b) Lito.
(c) Señor Castillo.
(d) Luis.

12. Where does the Greek Coast Guard take Mahmoud and the other refugees at dawn once the boat is full of people?
(a) Lesbos.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Cypress.
(d) Tuscany.

13. What does Isabel do just before Ivan's body is buried at sea?
(a) She gives Ivan a hug.
(b) She touches Ivan's chest.
(c) Nothing, since she is too overcome with grief.
(d) She kisses Ivan's forehead.

14. What item do Isabel and Amara work together to break away from the boat so they can throw it overboard and reduce the rapidity of the capsizing process?
(a) The engine.
(b) The cooler.
(c) A bench.
(d) The portrait of Fidel Castro.

15. What does Officer Padron do when the passengers of Josef's ship rush the ship ladder?
(a) He calls for help.
(b) He explains the reasons behind his actions.
(c) He draws his pistol.
(d) He threatens to take the ship back to Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason that Mahmoud's family's boat begins to fill with water on their journey to the island?

2. What is NOT an item Mahmoud sees upon disembarking from the Greek Coast Guard boat?

3. In what activity are Isabel and the other boat passengers engaging when Ivan is attacked by a shark?

4. What does Ivan's mother Señora Castillo do just before Ivan's body is buried at sea?

5. What island is the intended destination when Mahmoud and his family set out on the rubber dinghy?

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