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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who answers the door at Bompie's house?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A nurse.
(c) A maid.
(d) A neighbor.

2. In Sophie's story, what do Bompie and his father do after Bompie brings his father a pie?
(a) They laugh.
(b) They cry.
(c) They argue.
(d) They hug.

3. What do the crew do to practice radio code?
(a) Ask for food by radio-code names.
(b) Have special radio-code conversations a half-hour a day.
(c) Call each other by abbreviated radio-code versions of their names.
(d) Make fake radio-code calls to each other.

4. After the destructive wave hits the boat, how does Cody say he feels?
(a) As if he's in a prison.
(b) As if he's a part of the ocean.
(c) As if he's having a dream.
(d) As if he's watching a movie.

5. Who does Bompie look like?
(a) Uncle Mo.
(b) Uncle Stew.
(c) Brian.
(d) Uncle Dock.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cody contact the ship?

2. What does Brian call the little black bird?

3. When Cody's father tells him that Cody's been a good son and he's been a bad father, what does Cody think?

4. What level does Uncle Dock say the gale is?

5. What type of ship does Cody contact?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cody notice that Sophie does when retelling the story of their journey?

2. What theory about death and life do Cody and Sophie discuss?

3. How does Sophie describe life on the boat in the turbulent water?

4. When the travelers arrive in Ireland, who are they able to reach by phone?

5. What quotation from Tennyson does Uncle Dock yell out?

6. What does Mo do after he gets back from the trip?

7. How does Sophie describe the color of the sea?

8. In Sophie's story about Bompie and his father, why does Bompie visit his father?

9. What does Uncle Stew say about the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current?

10. What makes it difficult to find Bompie's house in the town of Thorpe?

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