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Refugee Chunks 1- 2 (pgs 1-109)

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did Ruthie see for the first time on board the ship?

a)

movie

b)

cartoon

c)

crystal glasses

d)

badminton

2.

How many Jewish passengers were on board the St. Louis?

a)

300

b)

672

c)

512

d)

908

3.

What is a bar mitzvah?

a)

ceremony for a Jewish boy to become a man

b)

route crossing a country border

c)

dresses for women in Turkey

d)

the hidden heartbeat of the people

4.

Why did the two police officers run toward the Castillo's boat?

a)

to arrest Isabel's father

b)

to steal the gasoline

c)

to get on the boat with them

d)

to cheer them on

5.

What dangerous question did the four soldiers ask Mahmoud's dad?

a)

Why don't you fight the tyrant Assad?

b)

Are you going to Turkey?

c)

Where are you going?

d)

Which side do you support?

6.

What kind of car did Mahmoud's dad drive?

a)

BMW sports car

b)

Mercedes station wagon

c)

Dodge caravan

d)

Chevy Suburban

7.

What game did Mahmoud's father joke about playing on his iphone?

a)

candy crush

b)

angry birds

c)

among us

d)

tetris

8.

What were the three greatest failures of the Cuban Revolution, according to the people on Isabel's boat?

a)

education, public health, and sports

b)

government, education, and business

c)

breakfast, lunch, and dinner

d)

morning, noon, and night

9.

What did Isabel's father tell Senor Castillo he wanted to do when he got to America?

a)

play baseball

b)

go shopping

c)

eat like a king

d)

be free

10.

What did Mahmoud did out of the cardboard box of used toys?

a)

a teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

b)

a My little pony

c)

a hot wheels sports car

d)

a cabbage patch doll

11.

What song was the unofficial national anthem of Germany?

a)

The Horst Wessel Song

b)

The Nuremburg Song

c)

Der Sturmer Song

d)

The Schiendick Song

12.

What was Isabel and Ivan's task in the boat?

a)

to pour seawater over the engine

b)

to scoop out water from the bottom of the boat

c)

to fan the adults from the heat

d)

to play music to comfort the passengers

13.

What did Isabel always assume would come to her eventually?

a)

her trumpet would be returned

b)

her grandfather's brother who left in the airlifts

c)

things would get better despite the hardship

d)

that the rhythm of her homeland would one day whisper secrets to her soul

14.

Whom did Mahmoud's father hire to take them to the boat?

a)

a Syrian soldier

b)

a Syrian refugee

c)

a Turkish smuggler

d)

a Turkish kuru

15.

What place did the Syrian boy take Mahmoud's family to stay for the night?

a)

a park

b)

a garden

c)

a circus tent

d)

a mall

16.

Why did the Nazis take Josef's father into custody?

a)

he got on the boat without a ticket

b)

he practiced law when it was forbidden

c)

he escaped the concentration camp

17.

What did Ivan first tell Isabel he and his father were building?

a)

a doghouse

b)

a shed

c)

a boat

18.

What kind of Muslim was Mahmoud?

a)

khalid

b)

shia

c)

sunni

19.

What was Mahmoud's trick to survival?

a)

to be invisible

b)

to hide behind walls

c)

to confront bullies

20.

Where was the ship taking Josef and his family?

a)

Hamburg

b)

Cuba

c)

Berlin

21.

What nickname did Isabel's grandfather give her?

a)

Mami

b)

Lito

c)

Chabela

22.

What was the name of the ship that would take Josef to a new life?

a)

MS Havana

b)

MS Castillo

c)

MS St. Louis

23.

What did Isabel trade for gas?

a)

kitten

b)

trumpet

c)

television

24.

Where were Mahmoud's family going to escape to?

a)

Austria

b)

Hungary

c)

Germany

25.

Isabel was listening for the clave. What was the "clave?"

a)

a mysterious hidden beat in Cuban music

b)

the irregular heartbeat of Cuban natives

c)

the crash of waves on the seawall

26.

Which word best describes Waleed?

a)

mummy

b)

robot

c)

target

27.

What city did Mahmoud and his family live in?

a)

Aleppo

b)

Syria

c)

Daraa

28.

What did Josef tell the concession stand man he wanted to be when he grew up?

a)

a journalist

b)

a policeman

c)

a lawyer

29.

What did Germans call the night that Josef's father was taken away?

a)

Sturmabteilung

b)

Dachau

c)

Kristallnacht

30.

What did Isabel's father do to make the policeman angry?

a)

beat the officer with a nightstick

b)

throw a bottle at the police line

c)

climbed onto the hood of a police car