Refugee Book Club Quiz

The Protagonist named Josef is a Jewish boy from what country?

• Isreal
• Palestine
• Germany
• Syria

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Isabel, one of the protagonist in the story, is trying to get to the United States from where?

• Haiti
• Cuba
• Puerto Rico
• Dominican Republic

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Mahmoud, one of the protagonist, is being forced out of his home because of what?

• Genocide
• Aliens
• Civil War
• A Depression

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Which character is fleeing to safety from the Nazis?

• Mahmoud

• Isabel

• Josef

• Ivan

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Which character becomes a "man" in the book?

• Lito

• Josef

• Ivan

• Mahmoud

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Which character paid a smuggler to escape his war-torn country?

• Papi

• Josef

• Senor Castillos

• Mahmoud

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The theme across all 3 stories is ...

• fear

• desperation

• determination

• betrayal

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What happened to Isabel's grandfather?

• He made it to Miami with the rest of the family.

• He stayed behind in Cuba from the beginning.

• He distracted the Coast Guard by jumping into the water and then got sent back to Cuba.

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Josef heard the ship's crew singing Nazi songs when...

• A wedding party was celebrating in the first class cabin

• the children were given a tour of the engine room

• he led his cousins to the kitchen to look for food

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What does Otto Schiendick try to do at the funeral to the body of Professor Wells

• he wants to stop the funeral because the professor is Jewish

• he wants the body to be covered with a Nazi flag before it is buried at sea

• he wants to burn the body in the boiler room of the ship

• he wants to wait until they arrive in Cuba to bury his body

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