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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Sophie keep waking up Cody?
(a) She can't sleep.
(b) She wakes him for his shift on watch.
(c) She keeps asking questions.
(d) She's having nightmares.

2. What does Uncle Mo give his family as presents?
(a) Drawings.
(b) Stories.
(c) Apples.
(d) Notebooks.

3. On Sophie's first night home, what food does her dad make?
(a) Barbequed chicken.
(b) Steak kabobs.
(c) Pork chops.
(d) Blackened catfish.

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

5. In Sophie's story, where does Bompie go to see the ocean?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) Virginia.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Maine.

6. Who ends up staying behind to start the repair work on The Wanderer?
(a) Uncle Dock.
(b) Uncle Stew.
(c) A hired man.
(d) Uncle Mo.

7. What do the travelers try to use for navigation after the wreckage of the storm?
(a) The currents.
(b) The sextant.
(c) The GPS.
(d) The sun and moon.

8. Who brings Bompie an apple pie?
(a) Uncle Mo.
(b) Cody.
(c) Uncle Stew.
(d) Uncle Dock.

9. When Cody's father tells him that Cody's been a good son and he's been a bad father, what does Cody think?
(a) Cody thinks he's wrong, that Cody hasn't been a good son.
(b) Cody thinks he's wrong, that his father hasn't been so bad.
(c) Cody thinks he's right.
(d) Cody thinks he's wrong, that he's been a bad son and his father hasn't been so bad.

10. Who keeps looking over Sophie's shoulder while she tries to write in her journal in the car?
(a) Uncle Mo.
(b) Brian.
(c) Uncle Stew.
(d) Cody.

11. What does the crew of The Wanderer do while they eat their food, after arriving on land?
(a) They sing a song.
(b) They talk wildly among themselves.
(c) They tell their story to strangers.
(d) Nothing.

12. What does Sophie think, as the wave breaks over her and she is inside the water?
(a) The wave, oh, the wave!
(b) Stay facing up, Sophie.
(c) Hold that breath, Sophie.
(d) This is it, Sophie.

13. In Dock's story about the little girl, who does the girl go to live with immediately after her parents die?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) A foster family.

14. What poem does Dock recite from, when the boat reaches sight of land?
(a) Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd.
(b) The ocean said to me once.
(c) The Ocean's Song.
(d) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

15. After the wave hits, who becomes "Mr. Fix-It"?
(a) Uncle Dock.
(b) Uncle Mo.
(c) Cody.
(d) Brian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sophie doing that causes her to kneel on the deck just before she suddenly looks up and can't see anyone on deck?

2. What breaks in the wind?

3. What does Sophie wish, as the travelers cross through Wales?

4. Where is Rosalie leaving for?

5. What does Brian call the little black bird?

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