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

2. Where does Cody prefer to by during the storm?
(a) Below deck, sleeping.
(b) Up in the bosun's chair.
(c) On deck, trying to fix things.
(d) Below deck, eating.

3. Who does Sophie ask for more information about Rosalie and Uncle Dock?
(a) Cody.
(b) Uncle Mo.
(c) Uncle Dock.
(d) Uncle Stew.

4. Does Bompie remember the stories Sophie tells him?
(a) Yes, except for the parts about being in the water.
(b) Yes, he remembers everything Sophie recounts.
(c) No, he doesn't remember them at all.
(d) No, except for one story.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of "life insurance" does Sophie imagine getting at the end of Chapter 33?

2. Who brings Bompie an apple pie?

3. In Sophie's story, how does the little kid feel when people say the kid's parents have gone to heaven, a wonderful place?

4. What does Sophie compare the experience of the wave to?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sophie feel about the ham radio?

2. What quotation from Tennyson does Uncle Dock yell out?

3. What injury does Cody sustain in the large wave that hits the boat?

4. What do Sophie and Cody do to the sails of the boat, when they finally get them up again?

5. When everyone is up on deck in the midst of the storm, and Sophie sees them from the helm, what does she see?

6. What do Stew and Mo argue about?

7. What happens to Bompie in the story of the swimming hole?

8. How does Sophie describe life on the boat in the turbulent water?

9. What theory about death and life do Cody and Sophie discuss?

10. What does Mo do after he gets back from the trip?

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