Brosef
The name of the ship on which Josef and family are traveling.
What is the M.S. St. Louis ?
DEFINITION: The bow/prow.
What is the front of the ship?
This branch of Christianity was practiced by most Cubans until the revolution of 1959.
What is Catholicism/Catholic?
To make something quickly and for temporary use.
What is MAKESHIFT?
What happens to Josef and family once they are (seemingly) safe in a Serbian taxi.
What is they are robbed at gunpoint?
What Josef's mother decides to do when it's clear that everyone is going back to Europe.
What is dance?
A killer who has gone on a spree, killing victims in a similar way each time.
What is a SERIAL KILLER?
The dictator of Cuba from 1959 till 2008.
Who is Fidel Castro?
What is Hunker?
This northern European country is to be Mahmoud and family's final destination.
What is Germany?
What we learn about Josef's uncle.
What is he is named Josef/He fought and died in WWI?
These are typically offered at funerals.
What are condolences?
What happens to Isabel's boat once it reaches Miami
What is either a) boat starts to sink or b) they are caught by the Coast Guard.
What is DILIGENT?
This country borders Greece to the North.
What is Macedonia?
The Captain of the ship Josef and family are on.
Who is Captain Schroeder?
The hypothetical motion of a device or object that continues indefinitely without an external energy source.
What is PERPETUAL MOTION?
What Señor Castillo says he wanted to do with his sons once he got to Miami.
What is, open a restaurant?
A "sticky" situation (a difficult or unpleasant situation)
What is a PREDICAMENT?
What Mahmoud realizes the Serbians are doing as he's about to leave Macedonia.
What is closing the borders?
The traditional Jewish mourning practice of tearing one's shirt in grief.
What is Kri'ah?
Complete this famous Shakespeare quote: "Never so _________, never so in woe. No further can I crawl, no further can I go?"
What is weary?
The pet name for Isabel.
What is Chabela?
This word sounds like Imminent, but means something differently entirely-- something or someone of extreme importance.
What is EMMINENT?
The type of vehicle that the Serbian taxi driver is driving.
What is (a) Volkswagon?