Mahmoud
The only family member who didn't make it to Germany.
Who is Hana?
The only family member who was not taken to a concentration camp.
Who is Ruthie?
The two characters who did not make it from Cuba to Miami.
Who are Lito & Ivan?
The ceremony in the Jewish religion where boys become men.
What is a Bar Mitzvah?
How Josef's story connects with Mahmoud's.
What is Mahmoud gets taken in by Ruthie?
The year Mahmoud's story takes place.
What is 2015?
The year Josef's story starts.
What is 1938?
The year Isabel's story takes place.
What is 1994?
The US policy that would only let in Cuban refugees who made it to dry land
The wet foot dry foot policy
The Spanish word for tomorrow.
What is "mañana"?
The names of everyone in Mahmoud's family (including parent names)
Who are
Brother-Waleed
Sister- Hana
Mom- Fatima
Dad- Youseff
The names of all the people in Josef's family (including the parent names)
Who are
Mom- Rachel
Dad- Aaron
Sister- Ruthie
The names of everyone in Isabel's family (including parent names).
Who are
Mom- Teresa
Dad- Geraldo
Lito- Mariano
Dictator in Cuba during Refugee.
Who is Fidel Castro?
What is her Lito was the police officer who saved Josef's father?
Why Mahmoud thought, "I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die."
What is Mahmoud had just been teargassed (page 252)
What are the names of the two little girls who Josef meets on the MS. St. Louis?
Renata and Evelyne Aber
What is floating under one of the benches on the raft?
Ivan's industrales baseball cap
Name of the "president" of Syria in 2015.
Who is Bashar Al-Assad?
This character did not encounter sharks on their journey.
Who is Mahmoud?
The UN (United Nations)
What Josef's father said after jumping overboard.
What is (any of the following accepted):
"Murderers!
"They'll never take me!"
"Let me die!"
The two things Ivan wanted to do when he got to Miami.
What is
Watch American television (The Simpsons)
Play Baseball for the NY Yankees
The night that the Nazis attacked Jewish homes and businesses.
What is Kristallnacht?
When each character experiences breaking glass at the beginning of the book.
Josef- During kristallnacht
Isabel- During the police riot
Mahmoud- When his apartment is hit by a missle