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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 does Sophie do when she finally realizes that she's telling Bompie her own story?
(a) She starts to cry.
(b) She starts to scream.
(c) She runs out of the room.
(d) She faints.

2. In Sophie's story, how does Bompie get back to Kentucky after his visit to the ocean?
(a) He bicycles.
(b) He hitchhikes.
(c) He drives.
(d) He walks.

3. What does Cody catch his father juggling, as the group starts out to sea?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Mangoes.
(c) Apples.
(d) Pears.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Cody sleep on his first night at Bompie's house?

2. In Dock's story about the little girl, who does the girl go to live with immediately after her parents die?

3. In Sophie's story, what do Bompie and his father do after Bompie brings his father a pie?

4. Who decides to stay in England and take care of Bompie?

5. What does Brian accuse Sophie of, when she's upset about the job she gets?

Short Essay Questions

1. What dreams does Cody have about Sophie, after the storms are over?

2. What is the significance of the stops the boat makes before setting out to sea?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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