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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 not-so-good news do the travelers get when they call home?
(a) They learn that a job prospect for Stew has fallen through.
(b) They learn that Bompie is unwell.
(c) They learn that Cody's mother is leaving his father.
(d) They learn that Sophie's parents have been frantic with worry.

2. What do Brian, Sophie, and Cody plan on calling their raft to sail on the Ohio River?
(a) The Wanderer II.
(b) The Sierra-Oscar.
(c) The Blue Bopper II.
(d) The Blue Bopper Wanderer.

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

4. What is the trouble of the lone sailor the crew of The Wanderer talks to on the radio?
(a) He is having mechanical problems and needs someone to call the Coast Guard.
(b) He is having leakage and needs advice.
(c) He is having electrical trouble and needs to know his location.
(d) He is ill and needs someone to cheer him up.

5. What did Cody's dad ask him after getting off the phone with Cody's mother?
(a) Want a pizza?
(b) What are you looking at?
(c) Where's Sophie?
(d) Don't you have chores?

Short Answer Questions

1. What animals come to The Wanderer on its way out of the Bay of Fundy?

2. How do the travelers get from Ireland to Wales?

3. Who ends up staying behind to start the repair work on The Wanderer?

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

5. What does Brian say he felt like when the wave hit?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do Stew and Mo argue about?

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

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

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

7. How does Sophie describe life on the boat in the turbulent water?

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

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

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

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