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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the travelers eat on the bench near a London landmark?
(a) Hot dogs.
(b) Nachos.
(c) Corn dogs.
(d) Cheeseburgers.

2. Of the GPS, ham radio, and radar, what is still working after the massive wave?
(a) Only the ham radio.
(b) Only the radar.
(c) The ham radio and radar.
(d) None of them.

3. What does Cody do after dreaming about Sophie's story about Bompie and his father?
(a) Cody wakes up his father.
(b) Cody goes up and sits on the deck, staring at the water.
(c) Cody gets up and wanders restlessly around the boat.
(d) Cody wakes up Sophie.

4. What goes wrong with the boat's mainsail?
(a) Two gromments are torn out.
(b) It tangles with the lines.
(c) It breaks free from a line.
(d) A rip appears near the mast.

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

6. What job does Uncle Stew get?
(a) A job with a company that charts the ocean's bottom.
(b) A job with a company that tracks ocean temperatures.
(c) A job with a company that tracks fish populations.
(d) A job with a company that makes sail boats.

7. What color blanket does the little kid lie down on in the story Sophie tells Cody?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Yellow.

8. What level does Uncle Dock say the gale is?
(a) Force-eight.
(b) Force-ten.
(c) Force-nine.
(d) Force-eleven.

9. What does Sophie wish, as the travelers cross through Wales?
(a) That they would never see the sea again.
(b) That they could go home.
(c) That they would get to Bompie's quicker.
(d) That they would stop more.

10. Where is Rosalie leaving for?
(a) Germany.
(b) Spain.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

11. What does Uncle Dock injure in the wave?
(a) His arm.
(b) His leg.
(c) His back.
(d) His neck.

12. How does Sophie sleep her first night on land?
(a) She can't sleep.
(b) She falls asleep easily but dreams.
(c) She falls asleep easily but wakes.
(d) She sleeps soundly.

13. What river do the travelers cross to get to England?
(a) The Dee River.
(b) The Severn River.
(c) The Wye River.
(d) The Avon River.

14. What do the crew do to practice radio code?
(a) Have special radio-code conversations a half-hour a day.
(b) Ask for food by radio-code names.
(c) Call each other by abbreviated radio-code versions of their names.
(d) Make fake radio-code calls to each other.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gets into a fight, as the boat approaches land?

2. What is the trouble of the lone sailor the crew of The Wanderer talks to on the radio?

3. Who is the one person who doesn't cry in the midst of the storm?

4. What does Uncle Dock say, when Cody asks if Sophie knows what happened to her parents?

5. When Cody's father tells him that Cody's been a good son and he's been a bad father, what does Cody think?

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