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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 offers to let the Captain stay at their house during the storm?
(a) Mr. Bradshaw.
(b) Mr. Rice.
(c) Trudy.
(d) Call.

2. What branch of the military does Call join?
(a) Marines.
(b) Air Force.
(c) Army.
(d) Navy.

3. Why does Call drop out of school?
(a) To support his mother.
(b) He is teased by the other boys.
(c) It is too hard for him.
(d) He is not learning anything.

4. What does Louise name her first son after?
(a) An island.
(b) Her father.
(c) The valley.
(d) The Captain.

5. What does Louise want to see when she travels?
(a) Forests.
(b) The tropics.
(c) Mountains.
(d) Desert.

Short Answer Questions

1. What strange object did the storm dig up?

2. What game does the Captain teach Caroline and Louise?

3. How do the watermen know a storm is coming?

4. What does Louise realize about herself after the storm?

5. To where does Louise get a scholarship?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Louise say the water and the war are doing to the people on the island?

2. What does Louise name her first child, and why?

3. What does Louise like most about the Captain, and why?

4. What does Louise say about the boredom she feels at school?

5. What was destroyed in the storm?

6. What does the Captain do to try to calm Louise's grandmother during the storm, and how does she respond?

7. How does Grandmother react after the news of Hiroshima?

8. What does Call tell Louise and the Captain when he comes home from the war?

9. What does Louise do when she realizes that the older twin she caught at the end of the book is being ignored?

10. What does Louise decide to do in an effort to change her luck?

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