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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) Brian.
(b) Uncle Stew.
(c) Cody.
(d) Uncle Mo.

2. What kind of "life insurance" does Sophie imagine getting at the end of Chapter 33?
(a) Insurance that life will be happy.
(b) Insurance that life will be quiet and stable.
(c) Insurance that life will be interesting.
(d) Insurance that life will be long.

3. What does Sophie wish, as the travelers cross through Wales?
(a) That they would never see the sea again.
(b) That they would get to Bompie's quicker.
(c) That they would stop more.
(d) That they could go home.

4. What do Brian and Sophie notice about the dolphins?
(a) They seem afraid of the boat and its crew.
(b) They seem to want to investigate the boat and its crew.
(c) They seem to trust the boat and its crew.
(d) They seem not to notice the boat and its crew.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Sophie's story, how does Bompie get back to Kentucky after his visit to the ocean?

2. What breaks in the wind?

3. Of the GPS, ham radio, and radar, what is still working after the massive wave?

4. What does Uncle Mo say that his job is?

5. How does Sophie sleep her first night on land?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the family comes to visit Bompie, how does he react?

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

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

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

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

6. When the travelers arrive in Ireland, who are they able to reach by phone?

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

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

9. What seems different to Cody about the way Brian bugs Sophie, as they near Bompie's?

10. How does Sophie describe the color of the sea?

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