Refugee: pgs. 1-92

Read paragraph 2 and 3 on page 16.

"But right then, Khalid had been curled into a ball on the ground, his hands around his head while the older boys kicked him. 'Not so smart now, are you, pig?' One of them had said".

How does this incident change the action of the story?

• Mahmoud became lazy.

• Mahmoud and Khalid grew closer as friends.

• Mahmoud chose the path of invisibility.

• Invisible characters do not see.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

"CRACK! BANG! Josef Landau shot straight up in bed, his heart racing. That sound--it was like someone had kicked the front door in…"

How does the kicking in of the front door and the taking away of Josef’s father advance the plot?

• It shows how some men behave.

• Josef loves her sister.

• It helps to create the climax.

• It helps to create the exposition.

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"But a few years ago, in 1989, the Soviet Union had fallen, and Cuba had hit rock bottom. Cuba was a communist country, like Russia had been, and for decades the Soviets had been buying Cuba’s sugar for eleven times the price and sending the little island food and gasoline and medicine for free" (page 8).

What is the meaning of the phrase communist country?

• Only in Cuba

• Only in Russia

• Country or system with extreme form of Socialism dominated by a dictator.

• Country that is named after the Republican party, which is a major ideology of the United States.

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“Look! I found a bit of a dead fish on the beach for the cat.” Isabel recoiled at the smell, but the kitten came running back, eating greedily from Ivan’s hand” (page 9).

The word recoiled means?

• Seemed immoral

• Taste appalling

• Felt famished

• Flinched back in disgust.

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A migrant is a person who moves from one place to another within a country. My parents were migrants who came to California from Oklahoma and Texas in the early 1940s.

Refugees are forced to leave their countries but someone who chooses to resettle to another country in search of a better life is known as__________.

• An Immigrant

• a Migrant.

• a Refugee.

• a Casualties.

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CCSS.RI.6.4

Part A: Based on what you have read in Chapter 4, what is a possible theme the author wants to get across to the reader?

• Treat others the way you want to be treated

• Persecution causes a select group of people to become “invisible”.

• People are prejudice

• Family is always there for you

Part B: Which sentence from Chapter 4 BEST supports the answer to Part A?

• "The people chose not to see them.”

• “The bright yellow Star of David armbands the Landaus wore were like magical talismans that made them disappear.”

• “ Without these stupid armbands, without the letter J stamped on his passport, would anyone know he was Jewish”?

• “ Ruthie would have started kindergarten that year if Jews were allowed to go to school.”

Part A: Which statement BEST explains how the actions of Mahmoud and Waleed in Chapter 3 contribute to the central theme?

• Mahmoud and Waleed wanted attention

• Mahmoud wanted to be invisible so he could help Waleed

• Mahmoud and Waleed learned how valuable it was to be invisible in society and at school.

• Waleed was protecting Mahmoud from bullies at school.

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Part B: Which statement BEST supports the answer in Part A?

• “Mahmoud and Waleed could disappear among the heaps of twisted metal and broken cement, and there were no wall to fall on the if an artillery shell went whizzing overhead”

• It was better not to have friends in Syria in 2015”

• “Head down, hoodie up, eye on the ground”.

• “That’s when Mahmoud and Khalid had learned how valuable it was to be invisible”

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CCSS.W.6.9A

Which sentence from the Chapter 8 BEST supports the idea that Lito is not keen on leaving Cuba?

• “There was a riot on the Malecone”

• “You can’t go now...You have a family to take care of”.

• “What? But, I-- No,”

• “There is no reason to go throwing yourself onto a raft in the ocean”