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Refugee by Allan Gratz Open Book Exam
Answer the following questions based on the evidence in the book:
Chapter 1
Josef: Berlin, Germany - 1938
1. Why did Josef’s family move to a smaller apartment?
2. Who attacked Josef’s house?
3. What is meant by Sturmabteilung?
4. Why did the Brownshirts arrest Josef’s father?
5. How old was Josef? List the names of his family.
6. What is the night Josef’s family got attacked on called? What were the Nazis trying to deliver
through this attack?
7. What was the condition that Josef’s father released under?

Isabel: Just Outside Havana, Cuba- 1994

8. What was common between Isabel and the stray cat she was feeding?
9. Why did Cuba become a poor country?
10. Why would the Castillos get caught?
11. What did Isabel use to do with her trumpet?
12. What weren’t Isabel able to hear?

Mahmoud: Aleppo, Syria – 2015

13. How did Mahoud manage to be invisible? Why did he want to be invisible?
14. How did war affect Mahmoud and his brother?
15. Why did Mahmoud and his little brother go home from school in different route every day?
16. What is meant by the Arab Spring?
17. How did Mahmoud feel when he saw the boy with bread being beaten? How did he react?

Josef: Berlin, Germany - 1938

18. What was the yellow star of David, Josef’s family armband, impact on the people in the train
station?
19. Who was Josef’s best friend? What did he do to Josef?

Isabel: Just Outside Havana, Cuba- 1994

20. What saved Isabel’s father from the angry policeman?
21. Why did Isabel and her family have to leave Cuba that night?

Mahmoud: Aleppo, Syria – 2015

22. What did Mahmoud’s mother do for living?
23. What happened to Mahmoud while he was solving his math homework?

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