Refugee Chapters 1 - 21

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

• Genocide
• Aliens
• Civil War
• A Depression

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

• Haiti
• Cuba
• Puerto Rico
• Dominican Republic

Why does Isabel need to leave her country?

• She was getting bullied by two girls at school

• Her mother ran out of food for the family

• A policeman threatened to arrest her father and keep him in jail

• Her house was bombed by the police

What risky choice did Josef make on the train?

• Took off his Star of David armband

• Yelled at a Nazi soldier

• Snuck into another car to see his father

• Wrote a letter to the president

Who are the two "policemen" who run towards Isabel & Ivan's boat?

• Officer who want to stop them from leaving Cuba

• The Castillo's oldest son and his girlfriend

• Strangers desperate to escape the country

• Isabel's older brother and his friend

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

• empty oil barrels with Russian words on them

• a street sign painted with Fidel Castro's face

• several flamingo shaped pool floats

What does the smuggler promise to do for Mahmoud's family?

• To get them to Greece by boat

• To get them to Germany by car

• To hide them in a truck transporting food and supplies

• To get them papers so they can cross through a checkpoint at the border

Where does Mahmoud's family stay overnight in Turkey while they are waiting to leave for Greece?

• a park with other refugees

• a hotel taking in Syrian families

• an abandoned mall with other refugees

• a kind citizen lets them stay in their home

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

Why does Isabel dive into the water at the end of this section?

• to cool off from the intense heat

• to save Senor Castillo after he is thrown overboard by the waves

• to help repair the engine

• to help push the boat because the engine is dead