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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the travelers use to practice juggling?

2. What does Stew say Claire thought of him and his brothers when she was young?

3. What one thing does Sophie like about moving?

4. What does Uncle Stew say when Brian asks what happened to Sophie's real parents?

5. How many people can sleep on the boat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story does Sophie tell Cody about a little kid she knows?

2. What chore will Sophie have to take a turn at that she's not looking forward to?

3. How does The Wanderer look, compared to the other boats in Martha's Vineyard?

4. What habit of speech does Cody have that annoys most of the people on the boat?

5. What does Sophie think of the boat when she first sees it?

6. What does Sophie's mother do?

7. What does Frank's wife call Sophie?

8. Why does Uncle Mo worry while Cody and Sophie are away visiting Wood Island?

9. What does Cody's mom tell him when he talks to her on the phone?

10. How do the three brothers react when Brian asks if Stew has heard Sophie's baptism story before?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Wanderer deals with dangerous situations, and the characters all face death. Discuss the life-and-death struggles in the novel.

1) How do the characters change when they're faced with life-and-death situations? How does Cody change? How does Sophie change? How do the uncles change?

2) How do the characters respond differently to danger toward themselves and toward others?

3) What do life-and-death encounters reveal about the characters' relationships? How do characters' relationships change during the life-and-death struggle of the storm?

Essay Topic 2

The characters in the novel all deal with tragedy and loss. Discuss dealing with tragedy in the novel.

1) How does Dock deal with the loss of Rosalie? How is this loss a tragedy for Dock?

2) How does Sophie deal with the loss of her parents?

3) What other tragedies do characters deal with? Is Stew's loss of his job a tragedy? Does Cody deal with tragedy?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss men and women's roles in the novel.

1) Why does Sophie get angry when she is cast in a traditional women's role? Why does she want to do tasks that are traditionally male?

2) How does Cody react to implications that his tasks of cooking and cleaning are traditionally women's tasks? Why does he respond this way?

3) What is the author saying about traditional roles of men and women in society?

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