Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood

In a letter he is not supposed to open, Kenneth J. Sparks learns that he is being sent to…

• United States
• Canada
• Germany

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What happened to Kenny's mother?

• She'd been deported.
• She died shortly after he was born.
• She was killed in a train wreck.

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What happened on Saturday, September 7th, 1940?

• Pearl Harbor was attacked.
• The Germans attacked England; known as the Blitz.
• Ken got on the boat.

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An ________ where they stayed before getting on the boat.

• church
• hospital
• orphanage

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What is the name of the British luxury liner fresh from India that they boarded?

• Town of Avonlea
• City of Benares
• Nation of Wonder

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Ken is given a fine room with…

• his best friends
• Mr. Buxoo
• Three young boys he did not know

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For the first five hundred miles, why does the boat convoy zig and zag?

• To save fuel
• To throw the enemy off their course
• To avoid rough waters

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What sickness attacks some of the boys on the ship?

• Chicken Pox
• Small Pox
• Malaria

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Father O'Sullivan says it is 10:34 on Tuesday, September 17th when…

• The City of Benares Sinks
• The boys enter the ship
• They eat a lobster dinner

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Who rubs the legs of the boys to keep circulation going in these cold, wet, cramped quarters?

• Miss Cornish
• Cooper
• Father O'Sullivan

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