Refugee Review

Match the following

• a feeling of intense excitement or happiness

• Euphoria

• The most intense or exciting moment in a series of events

• Fugue

• veered

• Elation

• A musical theme that is repeated again and again without resolution

• change direction suddenly

• Great happiness or exhilaration

• Climatic

Match the following

• change direction suddenly

• Asylum

•  to make someone feel ashamed and foolish

• Veered

• discussions aimed at reaching an agreement

• Negotiations

• maintain an upright position in deep water by moving the feet

• Tread water

• the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country

• Humiliating

Reorder the following events in Isabel's journey

• A Bohemian officer prevents Isabel and her family from disembarking

• Isabel and her family are spotted by the US Coast Guard

• Isabel and her family are almost hit by a tanker

• A massive storm takes Isabel and her family off track

• Isabel and her family flee Cuba

Reorder the following events about Josef's journey

• Cuba prohibits most passengers from disembarking

• Josef and his family board the MS St Louis

• Josef and his family start a new life in France

• Josef realizes that below deck is the "real world."

• Josef and his family are attacked on Kristallnacht

Reorder the following events about Mahmoud's journey

• Mahmoud and his family reunite after their apartment is bombed

• Mahmoud and his family are captured by Hungarian soldiers

• The dinghy hits rocks and Mahmoud and his family are thrown from their dinghy

• Hana is handed to strangers to save her from drowning

• Mahmoud and his family begin their journey across the Mediterranean Sea

Match the following

• Person vs person

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• Person vs self

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• Person vs nature

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• Person vs society

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Match the following

• Compares two things without using like or as

• 
• Gives human-like qualities to objects

• 
• Compares two things using like or as

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Who said it? "Well she couldn't choose. How could she? So my brother chose for her."

• Ivan

• Mahmoud

• Ruthie

• Isabel

The novel is narrated from the point of view of

• a first-person narrator

• a second-person narrator

• a third-person narrator

• Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud

According to the text, “The Mediterranean was still attacking them, wave after wave trying to drown them,” (Gratz 179) This is an example of

• simile

• metaphor

• personification