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

2. 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 sextant.
(d) The currents.

3. What does Uncle Stew really want to do for a living?
(a) He wants to be a sailor.
(b) He doesn't know.
(c) He wants to be an artist.
(d) He wants to be a firefighter.

4. What do the crew do to practice radio code?
(a) Ask for food by radio-code names.
(b) Make fake radio-code calls to each other.
(c) Have special radio-code conversations a half-hour a day.
(d) Call each other by abbreviated radio-code versions of their names.

5. What is the difference between the wave in Sophie's dream and the wave that hit the boat?
(a) Its size.
(b) Its color.
(c) Its texture.
(d) Its shape.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Uncle Dock injure in the wave?

2. What level does Uncle Dock say the gale is?

3. Who is the one person who doesn't cry in the midst of the storm?

4. What do Brian, Sophie, and Cody plan on calling their raft to sail on the Ohio River?

5. What does Sophie think, as the wave breaks over her and she is inside the water?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Stew and Mo argue about?

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

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

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

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

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

7. As Dock tells his story of the little girl, what does Cody realize about Sophie's stories?

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

9. What happens in the altercation between Sophie and Brian?

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

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