Q 01/05

In Refugee, which Landau survives the Holocaust and later shelters Mahmoud's family in Berlin?

A) Josef

B) Ruthie

C) Rachel

D) Aaron

Answer · why

B) Ruthie

Ruthie is Josef's little sister, alive only because he volunteered to go to the camps in her place. In 2015 she tells Mahmoud her family died so that ...

Q 02/05

In Refugee, which Spanish word do Cuban officials keep repeating to the passengers on Josef's ship?

A) Nunca

B) Pronto

C) Mañana

D) Adiós

Answer · why

C) Mañana

Mañana means tomorrow, and the promise is never kept. Mahmoud's family hears the same empty promise from a smuggler in Turkey, day after day.

Q 03/05

In Refugee, what prized possession does Isabel trade to a fisherman for gasoline to flee Cuba?

A) Her trumpet

B) Her bicycle

C) Her radio

D) Her necklace

Answer · why

A) Her trumpet

Her trumpet buys two cans of gasoline for the neighbors' homemade boat. She had been playing it on Havana's streets for tourists' pesos.

Q 04/05

In Refugee, how does Isabel's best friend Iván Castillo die on the crossing from Cuba to Florida?

A) Drowning in a storm

B) A police gunshot

C) A fever at sea

D) A shark attack

Answer · why

D) A shark attack

A shark attack mangles his leg while he floats beside the boat. The passengers had been taking turns in the water to lighten the cracking hull.

Q 05/05

In Refugee, who in Isabel's boat turns out to be Mariano Padron, the policeman from Josef's story?

A) Geraldo

B) Luis

C) Lito

D) Iván

Answer · why

C) Lito

Lito is Isabel's grandfather, and as a young officer in 1939 he had to tell Jewish passengers they could not land. His guilt over it drives his final ...