Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3 & 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
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Mina and her family are from this country.
What is Germany?
100
This person gives Ernst, Mama, and Mina the money to move to Texas.
Who is Opa?
100
This type of transportation is what Mina and her family must ride to get to the grand port of Bremerhaven.
What is a riverboat?
100
What animals do the girls see playing in the ocean?
What are dolphins?
100
Where in Texas does the Margaretha dock?
What is Galveston?
200
Christian and Ernst (Mina's father) are related this way.
What is "brothers."
200
This word describes Mina when she thinks about moving to Texas.
What is "excited?"
200
This is a type of bed found on a ship where Mina and her family sleep on the journey.
What is a berth?
200
How long did it take for the Margaretha to reach Santo Domingo or Haiti?
What are months?
200
What brings the German families to shore from the Margaretha?
What is a barge?
300
Mina describes herself this way.
What is "unable to keep her feelings in."
300
This word describes Mina as she says goodbye to Wehrstedt and her German relatives.
What is "sad?"
300
What statue does Mina want to see in Bremen during their stopover?
What is the statue of Roland?
300
What would Papa allow Mina and Anna to draw on during the voyage?
What is a map?
300
What language did Mina and her family hear all around them in Galveston?
What is English?
400
The stranger in the village came to talk to German families about moving to this place.
What is Texas?
400
This china doll is going with Mina to Texas.
Who is Johanna?
400
Auf Wiedersehen means this word in English.
What is "goodbye?"
400
What did sailors use to navigate their ships to point them in the right direction?
What are the sun and the stars?
400
Mina and Papa visit a store to buy tools and end up buying this item.
What is a double barreled shotgun?
500
The "Adelsverein" are a group of these type of men who purchased land for the benefit of German peasants.
What is a group of German noblemen?
500
Because Papa is ____________ in the family, he will not inherit the farm and must make a new life for Mama and Mina.
What is second born?
500
What ocean do Mina and her family travel to get to Texas?
What is the Atlantic?
500
How did the passengers celebrate near the end of their trip?
What is a dance?
500
Papa thanks God for a safe voyage, good food, and this blessing.
What is "our new land?"
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