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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. What does Uncle Mo do most of the time while the group is working on the boat?
(a) He lays in the sun and sleeps.
(b) He yells at his son.
(c) He walks around the boat making "hmm" noises.
(d) He scrubs down the sides of the boat.

2. What does Cody offer to teach the others on the trip?
(a) How to juggle.
(b) How to cook omelettes.
(c) How to draw.
(d) How to dance.

3. Why did Sophie's family move?
(a) Sophie's mother missed the Kentucky mountains.
(b) Sophie's mother got a new job.
(c) Sophie's father wanted to be near his family.
(d) Sophie's father inherited a house.

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

5. Who or what calls to the narrator at the beginning of the novel?
(a) The wind.
(b) A friend.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) The sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sophie wonder about Cody?

2. How long has Sophie been living with her adopted parents?

3. Which of the following is not one of the sides of Sophie?

4. What does Uncle Dock plan to teach the others on the journey?

5. What does Stew say Claire thought of him and his brothers when she was young?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the tall, lanky woman that Cody and Sophie meet show them?

2. Why does everyone react strangely when Sophie explains what she plans to teach?

3. What does Uncle Dock give Sophie's mother, that encourages Sophie's mother to let her daughter go on the trip?

4. What does Sophie's mother do?

5. How long have Sophie's uncles wanted to sail across the ocean?

6. How does The Wanderer look, compared to the other boats in Martha's Vineyard?

7. What does Frank say happened to the bait in the empty pot?

8. Describe Uncle Mo.

9. What does Cody's mom tell him when he talks to her on the phone?

10. What habit of speech does Cody have that annoys most of the people on the boat?

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