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

2. Of the GPS, ham radio, and radar, what is still working after the massive wave?
(a) The ham radio and radar.
(b) Only the radar.
(c) Only the ham radio.
(d) None of them.

3. In Sophie's story, how does the little kid feel when people say the kid's parents have gone to heaven, a wonderful place?
(a) Suspicious.
(b) Angry.
(c) Contented.
(d) Abandoned.

4. Who does Bompie look like?
(a) Uncle Mo.
(b) Uncle Stew.
(c) Brian.
(d) Uncle Dock.

5. What does Uncle Mo give his family as presents?
(a) Stories.
(b) Apples.
(c) Notebooks.
(d) Drawings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of "life insurance" does Sophie imagine getting at the end of Chapter 33?

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. What does Uncle Stew really want to do for a living?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What gift does Cody give his father?

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

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

8. What are Sophie and Uncle Dock's attitudes toward the autohelm?

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

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

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