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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 do the voyagers conclude that the blips they're seeing on their radar are?
(a) Rain clouds.
(b) Small boats.
(c) Whales.
(d) Wind funnels.

2. The first night out on the ocean, what appears in the water around the boat?
(a) A seaweed forest.
(b) Gulper eels.
(c) Sea turtles.
(d) Phosphorescent plankton.

3. What color is the gigantic wave that approaches behind the boat while Sophie is watching and Cody is at the wheel?
(a) Gray.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) White.

4. What breaks in the wind?
(a) The main boom.
(b) The masthead.
(c) The jib.
(d) The spreader.

5. What does Uncle Stew do for a living?
(a) He is a medical assistant.
(b) He manages an apartment building.
(c) He is an accountant.
(d) He sells insurance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How fast are the winds?

2. In the two-person watches at the beginning of the ocean voyages, who is Sophie on duty with?

3. What does Brian insist Sophie is doing regarding her parents?

4. What does Cody tell his father, as the sail-less boat is whipped by the waves?

5. During the storm, what kind of music does Sophie imagine should be playing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cody describe the fog on the ocean journey?

2. What happens to the sails in the heavy wind?

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

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

5. In Sophie's story about Bompie and his father, why does Bompie visit his father?

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

7. How does Sophie feel about the ham radio?

8. What are Sophie and Uncle Dock's attitudes toward the autohelm?

9. What makes it difficult to find Bompie's house in the town of Thorpe?

10. What gift does Cody give his father?

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