English Vocab and Reading

Question 1

How did Josef feel at the train station in Berlin?

Answer 1

He felt invisible

Question 2

Where did Josef’s family reunite? (dock)

Answer 2

Hamburg

Question 3

captain of the MS St.Louis

Answer 3

Captain shroeder

Question 4

How did Josef find out about all the Jews not going to Cuba?

Answer 4

He overheard 2 stewards talking abut it

Question 5

Why did the MS St. Louis slow down?

Answer 5

For a funeral

Question 6

Which passenger passed away at the funeral?

Answer 6

Professor Weiler

Question 7

The Nazi concentration camp that Aaron Landau went to?

How long?

Answer 7

Dachau

6 months

Question 8

Who tore up the Landau’s room onboard ship? (Name of Nazi)

Answer 8

Otto Scrienadick

Question 9

Who saves Josef’s father

Answer 9

Officer Padron

Question 10

What city did Josef say he wish he could enter?

Answer 10

City of Miami

Question 11

Who approaches Josef and asks him to help overthrow the captain and crew?

Answer 11

Pozner

Question 12

Why had Mrs.Landao refuse to let Ruthie take off her coat?

Answer 12

Because she had sewn dimand earrings into the lining of her coat.

Question 13

Negotiations between Mr.Robert and the Locktons were interuppted when?

Answer 13

the tavern keepers’s wife, Jenny offered to buy Ruth and Isabele

Question 14

How did Isabel react when Mrs. Locton said that Ruth would be her peronall maid?

Answer 14

She filled with anger

Question 15

Why was Madam so insistant that Ruthie should leave?

Answer 15

She believed she had the Devil in her

Question 16

Which cheek was Isabel branded?

Answer 16

Right. Insolence was branded on her cheek.

Question 17

What did the young man give Isabel?

Answer 17

Copy of the book: Common Sense

Question 18

Peruse

Answer 18

to read through carefully and thoroughly

Question 19

Frivolous

Answer 19

Of little importance

Question 20

Audacious

Answer 20

Bold, adventurous

Question 21

Ivalidate

Answer 21

To make useless, valuless, worthless

Question 22

repercussion

Answer 22

A consequence of an action

Question 23

A ————- compares 2 things using the words, “Like” or “As”

Answer 23

Simile

Question 24

A ————– compares 2 things by stating that one thing is another

Answer 24

Metaphor

Question 25

A —————- is the repitition of the same consolent sounds in several words.

Answer 25

Alliteration

Question 26

A ————— is an OUTRAGEOUS exaggeration that emphasisis a point to be made in a statement, usually made to be funny

Answer 26

Hyberbole

Question 27

A ————— gives human charasticts to inanimate objects, animals or even ideas

Answer 27

Personification

Question 28

Use of words that sound like an sound heard.

Answer 28

Onomatopeia