Refugee Quiz #3 Chapters 41-52

"Help! my dad jumped overboard! Help!" Josef cried. Far below him, already a couple hundred yards away, Josef's father thrashed crazily in the water. He screamed incoherently, but he wasn't calling out for rescue.

What does incoherent mean?

• Unavoidable

• Dirty

• not easy to understand

• balanced

The trip, this odyssey, was pulling his family apart, stripping them away like leaves from the trees in the fall.

What does odyssey mean?

• Feeling sympathy for someone

• a long trip, full of adventure

• Uncertain or undecided

• never ending

But it was hard to fight against the inevitable. The water in the boat was almost to Isabel's knees. She and the others worked in the blazing hot Caribbean sun to scoop, pitch, scoop, pitch...

What does inevitable mean?

• well organized

• a metal case that contains a gas

• to tear into pieces

• unavoidable or expected

"you have done enough already for me to prefer serious charges against you, Captain Schroeder said, still frustratingly even-keeled."

What does even-keeled mean?

• controlled, balanced

• feeling sympathy for someone's loss

• uncertian

• to bother or annoy someone

"But they were there to celebrate Officer Padron, not badger the captain about why the were still on the ship."

What does badger mean?

• long journey

• lasting forever

• to bother or annoy someone

• to tear something into pieces

Soldiers in blue uniforms with red berets and armbands hurried to stop them, firing tear gas canisters into the crowd.

What does canister mean?

• A long journey

• A metal case that contains gas or a chemical

• To annoy or bother

• Unavoidable

"This was limbo. They could do nothing but wait."

What does limbo mean?

• No beginning or end; lasts forever

• A feeling of sympathy

• Uncertain or undecided

• Being under control or balanced

"You are Aaron Landau's son, Josef, yes? I'm sorry about your father" he said. Josef was tired of hearing people's condolences.

What does condolence mean?

• A feeling or expression of sympathy and sadness.

• To tear something into pieces

• Having no beginning or end

• A long journey

"He took his shirt collar in both hands and ripped it along the seam, rending his garment as he'd done when Professor Weiler had been buried at sea."

What does rend mean?

• A long journey

• A metal case filled with a gas

• To tear into pieces

• Undecided

"He made the sign of the cross over Ivan's body and said, 'eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen"

What does eternal mean?

• To tear to pieces

• Lasting forever, no beginning no end

• Unavoidable

• To line up