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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. What type of whale hit the Bailey's boat?
(a) Sperm.
(b) Orca.
(c) Baleen.
(d) Gray.

2. How many days at sea did it take the Bailey to travel from Falmouth to Spain's Galician coast?
(a) 6.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

3. How many hours on their second night did Maurice and Maralyn alternate rowing?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

4. Once the boat is delivered in 1968, how many years did it take Maralyn and Maurice to finish the interior?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

5. What color was the canopy of the raft?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow-green.
(d) Orange.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Maurice and Maralyn anchor and meet up with their friends?

2. How far were Maurice and Maralyn form a coast when the boat sank?

3. When did it finally rain for the first time?

4. What year was Maurice born?

5. In return for their help, where did Maurice and Maralyn take the Fosketts on a practice voyage?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the problems with rowing?

2. How did Maurice and Maralyn meet?

3. How did Maurice and Maralyn try to use the turtles to pull them across the ocean?

4. What happened when the Baileys saw a ship heading east in Part 2, Chapter 5?

5. What happened when Maurice and Maralyn tried to kill their second turtle?

6. What was Maurice and Maralyn's wedding like?

7. What did Maurice think their chances of surviving were, and what did he tell Maralyn?

8. How and why did Maralyn start organizing after the ship sank?

9. How was the life raft constructed?

10. Where did Maurice estimate they are after the Auralyn sank?

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