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Refugee Week 6 Ch. 43-53

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where does Mami have the baby?

a)

In the Bahamas

b)

In Miami

c)

On the dinghy

d)

On the Coast Guard vessel

2.

Why does Lito jump out of the dinghy and swim away from the Coast Guard?

a)

He wants to distract the Coast Guard, so his family can reach the Florida shore.

b)

He is trying to escape the sinking boat.

c)

He wants be rescued by the Coast Guard.

d)

The engine isn't working, so he is trying to swim to Florida.

3.

How does Josef plan to stop the ship from taking his family back to Germany?

a)

He goes to the engine room and damages the ship's engine.

b)

He bribes a Cuban policeman to sneak his family into Cuba.

c)

He leads nine other men to the bridge to take over the ship.

d)

He uses a small dinghy on the side of the boat to escape the ship.

4.

Where was Mahmoud and his father taken by the Hungarian soldiers?

a)

back to Serbia

b)

to a hospital

c)

to an immigration detention center

d)

to a place to get clean clothes and food

5.

Who did Mahmoud find in a cell near him?

a)

Hana

b)

Waleed

c)

Fatima

d)

Both Fatima and Waleed

6.

What happened when Youssef tells the Hungarian officer that he does not want asylum in Hungary?

a)

The guards convince him to stay in Hungary.

b)

The guards tell him he will be sent back to Serbia.

c)

The guards escort him and Mahmoud to Austria.

d)

He is arrested.

7.

What do Belgium, Holland, France, and England agree to do?

a)

Arrest Schiendick

b)

return the refugees to Germany

c)

offer the refugees asylum

d)

Give supplies to the MS St. Louis

8.

One of the passengers reads the following brochure advertising traveling on the MS St Louis, "The St. Louis is a ship on which everyone travels securely, and lives in comfort. there is everything one can wish for that makes life on board a pleasure! We hope you'll want to travel on the St. Louis again and again!"

Which literary device is used?

a)

simile

b)

irony

c)

malapropism

d)

euphemism

9.

When one of the passengers says, "June twenty-first. That's exactly forty days and forty nights on a boat" this is an example of....

a)

an allusion

b)

a metaphor

c)

a simile

d)

irony

10.

Why is Josef upset once he settles in France?

a)

He wanted to live in Belgium.

b)

He was embarrassed because he was put in the first grade.

c)

He wanted to go home.

d)

He had to get a job.

11.

What did Lito tell Isabel before he jumped from the boat?

a)

He had been a Cuban policeman and did not help the Jews.

b)

He didn't want to go to America.

c)

He had helped save 900 Jewish people from the Nazis.

d)

He wanted to take a swim.

12.

"tossing sandwiches into the crowd like zookeepers throwing food to the animals in a cage" is an example of...

a)

a metaphor

b)

irony

c)

a simile

d)

an allusion

13.

While at the refugee camp, Mahmoud decides it is better to be...

a)

visible

b)

invisible

c)

hungarian

d)

alone

14.

When the German guards caught up to Josef, Rachel, and Ruthie, what did they try to make Rachel choose?

a)

which child to leave and which one to take with her to a concentration camp

b)

how much money to give them to buy her family's freedom

c)

to go to Switzerland or Great Britain

d)

to leave her kids and go alone with the soldiers

15.

What did they name Isabel's baby brother?

a)

Ivan

b)

Lito

c)

Josef

d)

Mariano

16.

How does Mr. Castillo return the favor to Isabel for saving him from drowning?

a)

He gives her the boat.

b)

He helped Isabel pull the boat to shore.

c)

He gave her food.

d)

He gave her Ivan's hat.

17.

Why did Isabel hold up Little Mariano into the air?

a)

so the Americans could see him

b)

to give him back to Mami

c)

so that Lito could see him

d)

to keep the sand off of him

18.

What do the words "their wet feet became dry feet" mean...

a)

They would be given asylum by the US.

b)

The American gave them towels.

c)

The Coast Guard was taking them back to Cuba.

d)

The sand dried their feet.

19.

How long does Google Maps show it will take Mahmoud and his family to walk to Austria?

a)

3 hours

b)

2 days

c)

12 hours

d)

1 day

20.

What did Uncle Guillermo give Isabel?

a)

a kitten

b)

new clothes

c)

a trumpet

d)

a violin

21.

What song did Isabel play on her new trumpet?

a)

"The Star-Spangled Banner"

b)

"America the Beautiful?

c)

"God Bless America"

d)

a Cuban salsa

22.

Which country gave Mahmoud asylum?

a)

Hungary

b)

Turkey

c)

Austria

d)

Germany

23.

What was name of the elderly lady who let Mahmoud's family live with her in Germany?

a)

Rachel

b)

Ruthie

c)

Isabel

d)

Renatta

24.

Who made the decision that Ruthie would be left in the French forest, and Josef would go to the concentration camp with Rachel

a)

The Nazi soldier

b)

the old French lady

c)

Rachel

d)

Josef

25.

What word means a person who rebels or refuses to obey a person in authority?

a)

mutineer

b)

parasite

c)

United Nations

d)

piracy

26.

What word means to rob or attack ships as sea?

a)

frantic

b)

piracy

c)

exposed

d)

flourish

27.

What word means to emit a sharp, clear, ringing sound?

a)

tinged

b)

frantic

c)

disembark

d)

distraught

28.

What words means unfocused or filmy?

a)

frantic

b)

distraught

c)

bleary

d)

tinged

29.

What word means an organism that lives in or on an organism and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense?

a)

United Nations

b)

parasite

c)

disembark

d)

Holocaust

30.

What word means to leave a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle?

a)

erode

b)

arrive

c)

disembark

d)

remove

31.

What word means deeply upset or agitated?

a)

flail

b)

excited

c)

distraught

d)

giddy

32.

What word means destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially by fire or nuclear war?

a)

Holocaust

b)

sacrifice

c)

invisible

d)

engulf

33.

What word means an international organization founded in 1945 to maintain international peace and security?

a)

Holocaust

b)

Nazi

c)

United Nations

d)

Nuremberg

34.

What word means wild with fear, anxiety, or other emotion?

a)

disappointed

b)

sad

c)

exposed

d)

frantic

35.

What word means not covered or hidden?

a)

obscured

b)

bleary

c)

exposed

d)

enveloped

36.

What word means grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way?

a)

flourish

b)

exposed

c)

distraught

d)

tinged

37.

What question means stay in a place longer than necessary because of a reluctance to leave

a)

disembark

b)

distraught

c)

flourish

d)

lingered