Refugee Chapter 16-18

Josef asks the captain

• when the boat will reach Cuba.

• why the boat is steering itself.

• why the boat is going so fast.

The men in the crew quarters below the deck

• were reading maps.

• were drinking alcohol.

• were cursing loudly.

Guillermo is

• Lito's brother.

• Senor Castillo's brother.

• Isabel's step-brother.

Isabel has a disagreement with Lito about

• trading her trumpet.

• the boat's engine failure.

• going back to Cuba.

The empty yogurt shop is used

• as a home for a Syrian family.

• by Mahmoud's family to sleep.

• as a smuggler's hideout.

"He left in the airlifts in the 1970s. The Freedom Flights, when the US airlifted political dissidents off the island," Lito explained.

The word dissidents most likely means

• followers

• soldiers

• rebels

• traditionalists

Which book character is Josef most like?

• Jesses from Bridge to Terabithia who struggles with guilt after his best friend Leslie dies.

• Luke from Among the Hidden who must leave his identity behind because he is a third child which is against the law in his country.

• Ella from Ella Enchanted who struggles against the childhood curses that forces her to obey and order given to her.

Which sentence does not belong?

(A) Mahmoud's family needed a place to spend the night. (B) First they went to the hotel, but discovered that it was packed with three families to a room. (C) Next they went to the park. (D) They found no room there either as it was full of other refugees. (E) A boy took Mahmoud's family to an abandoned mall. (F) They stated in an empty yogurt shop with no furniture and a broken linoleum floor. (G) Next door, a Syrian family of six stayed in a former music shop.

• sentence B

• sentence E

• sentence G

• sentence C

What is one characteristic Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud have in common?

• scheming

• abandoned

• scared

• jealous

What type of figurative language is in this sentence?

One of the regular sailors stood at a spoked steering wheel the size of a truck tires with handles sticking out all around it.

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole