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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What island is the intended destination when Mahmoud and his family set out on the rubber dinghy?
(a) Cypress.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Athens.
(d) Lesbos.

2. When it gets too dark to navigate, what strategy does Isabel advocate for?
(a) Using the stars for navigation.
(b) Using the flashlight on their single cell phone to light their path.
(c) Using their single cell phone to call the Coast Guard.
(d) Stopping and waiting for dawn.

3. What does Ivan's mother Señora Castillo do just before Ivan's body is buried at sea?
(a) She touches Ivan's chest.
(b) She gives Ivan a hug.
(c) She takes Ivan's hand.
(d) She kisses Ivan's forehead.

4. Who takes charge of performing the memorial service for Ivan before his body must be buried at sea?
(a) Senor Castillo.
(b) Senora Castillo.
(c) Isabel.
(d) Lito.

5. Why is Belgrade, Serbia an unsafe place for Mahmoud and his family?
(a) The Serbian police shoot first and ask questions later.
(b) Many people in Serbia are Islamophobic.
(c) Many Serbians are employed as informers for the government.
(d) The Serbian police are raiding hotels looking for illegal refugees.

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

7. When Mahmoud and his family finally reach Greece, no one is celebrating and Mahmoud says he knows why. What reason does Mahmoud give for the refugees' lack of celebration?
(a) They are too tired to do much of anything.
(b) Too many of them had lost loved ones in the sea on the way over.
(c) They know that the most dangerous leg of the trip is still to come.
(d) They have heard that Greece has decided to return all Syrian refugees to Syria.

8. Who appears next to Josef's ship and manages to convince authorities to release his two daughters from the ship?
(a) The girls' mother.
(b) The girls' father.
(c) The girls' brother.
(d) The girls' aunt.

9. When Josef's father disappears from the family's cabin in Josef's absence, where does he turn out to have gone?
(a) He has gone to the ship cafeteria.
(b) He has gone to confront Schiendick.
(c) He has jumped into the ocean.
(d) He has gone to the captain's quarters.

10. What percentage of the adult fare does the smuggler engaged by Mahmoud's father charge for children and babies?
(a) 80%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 100%.
(d) 50%.

11. How long does it take Josef's ship to sail from Havana to within viewing distance of Miami?
(a) Less than a day.
(b) Less than six hours.
(c) Less than two hours.
(d) Less than forty-eight hours.

12. When Isabel first sees the lights of Miami, what does she think she is seeing instead?
(a) A planet.
(b) Stars.
(c) Lightning.
(d) Dawn.

13. Just before Mahmoud tumbles from the boat into the sea, someone at the front of the dinghy yells that he sees what objects?
(a) Rescue boats.
(b) Lighthouses.
(c) Lightning strikes.
(d) Rocks.

14. Who pulls Isabel hurriedly into the boat in order to save her from being attacked by the shark who has bitten Ivan?
(a) Isabel's mother Mami.
(b) Lito.
(c) Senor Castillo.
(d) Isabel's father Papi.

15. 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 cooler.
(b) The portrait of Fidel Castro.
(c) A bench.
(d) The engine.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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. While trying not to look at Ivan's lifeless body, Isabel thinks about the fact that who has "Ivan's blood all over him" (224)?

5. As the passengers are chanting in desperation, who does Josef see lingering in the doorway and smiling?

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