WorksheetsRefugee Ch. 19-30
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 16mins
Reorder the following events from Josef's chapters.
Joseph's father was taken to a concentration camp.
Joseph was caught on the wrong part of the German train.
Joseph had his bar mitzvah and took on the role of a man.
Joseph and his family had their room searched by a Nazi.
Joseph and his family were checked by a Cuban doctor.
Match the following quotes to the character who either said it or was being referenced.
"The man in the bed was perfectly still, his mouth open and his eyes staring blankly at the ceiling. He was dead."
Josef
"If they see us, they'll have to rescue us! It's maritime law! And if they 'rescue' us, they'll send us back..."
Papi
"I was forced to leave my home in 1948 during the first Arab-Israeli war."
Mr. Nasseer
"The things that happened at roll call. The hangings. The floggings. The drownings. The beatings."
Aaron Landau
"The shrieking wind ripped roofs off houses and pulled palm trees straight out of the ground."
Isabel
Which is the name of a boat that was allowed to let families off at the port in Cuba?
SS Flandre
HMS Victory
MS Europa
RMS Titanic
Fill in the blanks with the correct words.
"When the smugglers had packed the (a) full of refugees, the pushed it out to sea. None of the smugglers came with them. If the refugees were going to get to (b) , they were going to have to do it themselves."
What is the name of the body of water that Mahmoud and his family are travelling by?
Atlantic Ocean
Red Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Indian Ocean
Why was Isabel staying with her Lito and Lita?
She needed to visit them for summer break.
Her parents were fighting a lot.
Her parents were going out of town.
Lito and Lita took care of Isabel since she was a baby.
Match the following quotes with the correct type of figurative language.
"It beat at her, pushing her and pulling her like a cat playing with the mouse it was about to eat."
Simile
"...it beeped its electronic siren at them - blurp-blurp."
Onomatopoeia
"What happened to him at Dachau that he's now a ghost of the man he once was?"
Metaphor
"She was crying great howling tears"
Hyperbole
"...smothering the house in its giant paw and dragging the shattered pieces back to its lair."
Personification
The captain approved Otto Schiendick to search the Landau's room on the ship.
True
False
Reorder the following events from Isabel's Story
Isabel jumps in the water to save Señor Castillo because she remembered her Lita drowning.
Lito says, "Red sky at morning, sailors take warning."
Isabel's mother becomes ill.
They replenish their food and water, then aim to sail to Miami.
Mami rejects the Bahamas offer to care for her and stays on the boat.
What is a draught?
A sleeping pill
A period of time with no rain or precipitation
A strong wind
Medicine
