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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section V - Wind and Waves.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brian accuse Sophie of lying about?
(a) Having learned to sail when she was three.
(b) Catching a 20-pound fish.
(c) Going clamming with Bompie.
(d) Being able to sail the boat on her own.

2. In Sophie's story, why doesn't Bompie get along with the pastor?
(a) Bompie messed up the cakes for the local bake sale.
(b) Bompie always makes a fuss when he is in church.
(c) The pastor has a conflict with Bompie's father about a piece of pasture.
(d) Bompie is dating the pastor's daughter and brings her home late.

3. Who ends up driving Sophie to Connecticut?
(a) Her father.
(b) Both her parents.
(c) A friend of her parents.
(d) Her mother.

4. What does Sophie compare the experience of the wave to?
(a) Being born.
(b) Being in a washing machine.
(c) Being baptized.
(d) Being a fish.

5. What temperature is it most days, while Sophie and her relatives are working on the boat?
(a) Seventy-five.
(b) Sixty-five.
(c) Eighty-five.
(d) Ninety-five.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not one of the "lands" Sophie is usually in?

2. In his story about Rosalie, what does Uncle Dock trade for a boat rental?

3. What is the word for D in radio code?

4. What does Sophie think, as the wave breaks over her and she is inside the water?

5. What does Sophie's father say about her trip?

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