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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. How do Sophie's friends react to her explaining about her relationship with the sea?
(a) They don't understand.
(b) They get very excited and want to learn to sail.
(c) They are jealous.
(d) They are interested and want to know more.

2. What does Brian plan to do, after Cody and Sophie get back from Wood Island?
(a) He plans an emergency rescue system in case someone is lost at sea.
(b) He plans a schedule of visits to Wood Island.
(c) He plans a buddy system so no one goes off alone.
(d) He plans a chart of what each person is doing each day.

3. What does Sophie say when Cody asks what happened to her parents?
(a) That she doesn't remember.
(b) Nothing, that they're in Kentucky.
(c) She pretends she doesn't hear him.
(d) That she doesn't want to talk about it.

4. What insult do Cody and Brian call each other after the baptism celebration?
(a) No-good no-nothing know-it-all.
(b) Ignoramus stupid-head.
(c) Sour pus.
(d) Knuckleheaded doofus.

5. What type of car does Frank drive?
(a) A convertible.
(b) A van.
(c) A sedan.
(d) A pickup.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the crew call the new bilge box?

2. What does Sophie say, when Cody is upset that his father berates him for going out to Wood Island?

3. What does Sophie's mother do when Sophie calls?

4. Why did some people object to the narrator sailing?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sophie's mother do?

2. How does Brian act when he walks on the beach with Cody and Sophie?

3. Describe the nightmare the narrator has.

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

5. Describe Uncle Stew.

6. Describe the baptism Sophie attends.

7. What does Sophie think of the Ohio River?

8. What does Uncle Dock do, when the fog comes in, and how does it affect Sophie?

9. In Cody's journal, how does he describe his mother?

10. What does Sophie do after she and her relatives get The Wanderer into the water?

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