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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. How do the wives on the island describe the bay?
(a) As a mistress.
(b) As a protectress.
(c) As a goddess.
(d) As a fickle lover.

2. What is the name of Louise's mother?
(a) Sara.
(b) Sally.
(c) Sandra.
(d) Susan.

3. In what month does it get hard to breathe in Rass?
(a) August.
(b) September.
(c) June.
(d) July.

4. Why does Mr. Bradshaw not allow Louise on his boat?
(a) She is too young.
(b) The boat is too small.
(c) He wants some space.
(d) Women are not allowed on the boats.

5. Whom does Louise take with her every day after school lets out?
(a) Captain.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Call.
(d) Caroline.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of her money does Louise give to her mother?

2. Who finds Louise crying after her suggestion is given?

3. Why was the Captain not able to do what he wanted with Trudy's cats?

4. What is Louise's first name?

5. What makes Louise feel out of place around Call and the captain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Caroline plan to do over the summer and why?

2. How does Louise's father treat his daughter's differently?

3. Why does Caroline have to go to the mainland in Chapter 4?

4. What do Louise and Call call the strange man after their first visit with him, and why?

5. What does the narrator describe in the first chapter?

6. What surprises Louise when she and Call have lunch with the strange man?

7. How do most women on the island feel about the bay?

8. What did Louise's father do before becoming a waterman?

9. What happens to the island in August?

10. What happened that shamed Hiram Wallace to the point that he left the island?

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