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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. When the winds pick up, what do the sailors do to the mainsail?
(a) They attach it to an additional sail.
(b) They tie it to make it smaller.
(c) They let it out to make it bigger.
(d) They bring it down and replace it with a wind-sail.

2. What does Uncle Dock say, when Cody asks if Sophie knows what happened to her parents?
(a) She must know at some level, but he doesn't know if she knows consciously.
(b) She knows because she was there when it happened.
(c) She doesn't know.
(d) She knows because she was told about it later.

3. What do the travelers try to use for navigation after the wreckage of the storm?
(a) The GPS.
(b) The sun and moon.
(c) The currents.
(d) The sextant.

4. Where are Sophie and Cody, when Sophie tell him the story of Bompie at the ocean?
(a) At the masthead.
(b) At the helm.
(c) In their bunks.
(d) In the galley.

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?
(a) Cody thinks he's wrong, that Cody hasn't been a good son.
(b) Cody thinks he's wrong, that his father hasn't been so bad.
(c) Cody thinks he's right.
(d) Cody thinks he's wrong, that he's been a bad son and his father hasn't been so bad.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Cody first thinks he spots land, what does it turn out to be?

2. What job does Uncle Stew get?

3. What does Cody's dad say about dolphins?

4. What does Cody catch his father juggling, as the group starts out to sea?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sophie feel about the ham radio?

2. What settles the argument about where Bompie should live?

3. How does Sophie feel about seeing Bompie, as the travelers near their destination?

4. What does Uncle Stew say about the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current?

5. What does Sophie hear when Cody is actually asking about her harness?

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

7. What does Cody notice that Sophie does when retelling the story of their journey?

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

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

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

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