WorksheetsRefugee Pages 1-55
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
How are Josef and his family treated by German citizens?
They are treated like everyone else
They are kicked at and spit on.
They are ignored.
They are treated like kings and queens.
Two giant tan smokestacks stuck up from the middle of the ship, one
of them belching gray-black diesel engine smoke.
hyperbole
personification
allusion
metaphor
What country is Josef's family trying to escape to?
United States
Cuba
Greece
Josef is traveling by train and when they were on the platform, "All of the station attendants flowed around them like water around a stone."
What does this mean?
The attendants rushed into him.
The attendants were angry.
The attendants avoided him.
Why is Isabell's family trying to flee Cuba?
Cuba is in the midst of a Civil War.
Cuba is under a communist government and there are little resources for the people.
Cuba is a dangerous place to live because of storms.
Cuba is persecuting Jewish people.
What is the "Wet Foot, Dry Foot" policy?
Any Cubans in poor health (i.e., foot fungus) cannot enter the United States.
Cubans can only enter America via airplane, not by boat.
Cubans on American land were granted special refugee status and allowed to remain in the US, but those caught be the US Coast Guard were sent back to Cuba.
If Cubans knew how to swim, they could enter the United States. If they did not know how to swim, they were sent back to Cuba.
A public area on which people walk or stroll for pleasure
promenade
summoning
debris
indignation
It was the last straw for the police.
idiom
hyperbole
simile
personification
The kitten's tummy purred like an outboard motor.
simile
hyperbole
idiom
metaphor
When there was chaos in the streets, Isabel noticed that there people were thick on the ground as sugarcane. This compares:
chaos and the ground
people and the ground
people and sugarcane
streets and people
The air was full of dust, and it scratched and tore at his throat as it went down, but Mahmoud had never tasted anything so sweet.
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
personification
What does catatonic mean?
to be surprised
to be aware of your surrounding
to be sad
to be unresponsive
What purpose does this line serve in the passage?
"It was easier to stay invisible"
To describe how super powers make kids feel special
to describe how Muhammad feels about living in Syria.
To inform the reader about the political crisis in Syria
What purpose does this line serve in the passage?
-Mahmoud couldn't remember the last time he'd seen his brother laugh, or cry, or show any emotion whatsoever.-
To explain how the war has effected his younger brother
To explain how watching tv all day has effected his younger brother
To explain why it is important for young children to express their emotions
What inference can be drawn from the sentence?
-Josef could barely walk. His legs were like lead, and his eyes lost their focus.-
Josef is very tired
Josef is very scared
Josef is very excited
Mahmoud follows Islamic traditional prayer rituals. After his brother joins him, he heard a "roar like a hot wind rising outside." Then, "it was like someone was sitting on his chest" because he could not breathe. What happened?
The prayer was over.
A bomb struck his home.
Waleed turned the volume of his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show up loudly.
"stood like a statue" is an example of _____
metaphor
similie
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
In Cuba, housing, supplies and food were all in short supply. All of the quotes below demonstrate how hungry people were EXCEPT:
People had even broken into the Havana Zoo and eaten the animals...
The cat was hungry, just like everyone else in Cuba, and its belly quickly won over its fear.
The kitten wasn't too different from her, Isabel realized: thin, hungry and in need of a bath.
She was barefoot like always, and wore a tank top and shorts.
Mahmoud and Josef are both:
sad to see their fathers unable to go to work because it is illegal for them to keep working
very popular at school
invisible
trying to get to Germany
"A building shuddered and collapsed, smoke and debris avalanching out into the street." The purpose of the figurative language in this sentence is to:
help the reader figure out what the word "shuddered" means
remind us that bombs can cause a lot of damage
create an image in the reader's mind of the danger in the situation
make sure we don't forget what is happening in Syria
