Refugee Comprehension Check Part 4

After two passengers were allowed to leave the St. Louis and enter Cuba all of the following happened EXCEPT:

• The passengers on the MS St. Louis turned into an angry mob

• The Cuban police drew their weapons on the passengers of the MS St Louis

• The captain announced that they were ordered to leave Cuba

• Josef’s family was allowed to visit his father in the hospital

What does Isabel keep to remember Ivan?

• A shark tooth

• A song

• A baseball card

• A baseball cap

How did Mahmoud’s family get to Serbia?

• They walked

• They took a train

• They took a taxi

• They took a bus

When Pozner pulls Josef aside what secret does he share with Josef?

• Pozner was planning a dancing party to cheer up Josef’s mother

• Pozner planned to get a group together to storm the bridge and take over the ship

• Pozner was getting a group of men together to get revenge on Schiendick

• Pozner was trying to get a message to a friend in America to get them to let the ship stop in Miami

When their makeshift boat starts to come apart and begins to take on water, what does Isabel do to keep them from sinking?

• She covers the tear in the boat with Fidel Castro’s sign that says “Fight Against the Impossible and Win!”

• She prays to her grandmother to save them

• She removes the motor and pitches it overboard

• She throws all of their supplies out of the boat

What happened on the Hungarian border that made Mahmoud think that he was going to die?

• He got lost in the woods

• He breathed in tear gas

• He broke his ankle while climbing over a fence

• He was hit by a car that he was trying to stop for help

What promise does Captain Schroeder make to the would-be mutineers?

• He will make sure that they all end up in a German camp

• He will do everything possible to land them in England

• He will turn the ship around and try to renegotiate with Cuba

• He will turn them all over to Schiendick and his goons

When Isabel’s family was spotted by the coast guard what did her mother do?

• She jumped into the water and began to swim to the shore

• She cried out because she wanted to be rescued by the coast guard

• She cried out because the baby decided to come at that moment

Where do the Hungarian soldiers take Mahmoud’s family?

• A tent city in Austria to be reunited with Hana

• A prison or detention center

• Back to Serbia

• A concentration camp

In Hungary Mahmoud and his family are treated like-

• Welcome guests

• Unwanted criminals