Refugee Chapter 13-18 Quiz

What does Josef thinks makes you an adult besides a bar mitzva?

• being able to give orders

• not pranking people

• being responsible

What does the rabbi ask the ship's captain to get rid of during the service?

• the German flag

• a picture of Hitler

• the Cuban flag

• a picture of a swastika

What has Ivan's family used as the material for the bottom of the boat? (The family finds this kind of funny).

• a door from the Castillo's home

• a street sign painted with Fidel Castro's face

• empty oil barrels with Russian saying on them

• several flamingo shaped pool floats

What is the main conflict of chapter 14?

• The bullet hole causes a leak

• Lito flirts with Amara

• the motor dies

What do Mahmoud and his family see when they first enter the camp in Turkey?

• a circus

• armed guards

• white tents and a shopping street

What does Mahmoud buy for Whaleed at the "market"?

• a toy gun

• a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle figurine

• a Teenage Mutant Ninja comic book

• a toy car

dirty or foul, as from neglect

• squalid

• wretched

• paranoid

• specimen

Personification is when the author gives human quality to a non-living thing. An example of personification is

• ".Schiendick said, his voice dripping with disapproval."

• "Josef clinched his fists, and his ears burned hot."

• "hatred followed them even here to the middle of the ocean."

Captain Schroeder gets angry when Josef asks

• "Are we going full speed because we're racing two other ships to Cuba?"

• "Are we going full speed because you bet that you could get to Cuba first?"

• "Are you going full speed because Hitler's Gestapo is chasing after you?"

Simile is a comparison using like or as. The author used simile in the following sentence.

• The man staggered a little, bumping into things as he tried to make his way through the tight little room.

• Josef felt like he was visiting an alien world.