Salt to the Sea

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-book review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. What is the most likely reason Joana and the other characters in the novel are reluctant to get to know one another?

A) They realize people do not live for long in war-torn Prussia.

B) They are wary of people who might put them in danger.

C) They lack the emotional capacity to care for others.

D) They suspect one of the people in their group may be a Nazi.

2. How does Sepetys demonstrate the psychological effects of fascist behavior on young military personnel?

A) By showing the reader Emilia’s moral decline

B) Through Florian’s distrustful behavior

C) In Alfred’s grandiose behavior

D) Through Ingrid’s intuitive nature.

3. What first bonds Joana’s group to Florian and Emilia?

A) Meeting in the barn for the first time

B) Their shared traumatic experience in the mansion

C) The journey to the ship

D) The chance encounter at the aristocrat’s residence

4. What best describes Florian’s attitude toward companionship at the novel’s beginning?

A) He wants to be alone.

B) He feels the need to travel in a group.

C) He wants to escape Emilia.

D) He is conflicted about his responsibility toward others.

5. What does Ingrid’s death foreshadow in the novel?

A) The death of the refugees on the lagoon

B) The trauma of the aristocratic family

C) The unity of Joana’s group