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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section II - Shakedown.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people can sleep on the boat?
(a) Seven.
(b) Six.
(c) Eight.
(d) Five.

2. How does the narrator describe sailing?
(a) Like flying over the water.
(b) Like being inside a painting.
(c) Like riding a wild beast.
(d) Like floating in nothingness.

3. What is used to lift the boat into the water?
(a) Good, old-fashioned muscle.
(b) A special dolly.
(c) A crane.
(d) A system of pulleys.

4. Who or what calls to the narrator at the beginning of the novel?
(a) The sea.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) The wind.
(d) A friend.

5. What does Uncle Stew call Sophie?
(a) The leftover.
(b) The tag-along.
(c) The orphan.
(d) The outsider.

Short Answer Questions

1. What temperature is it most days, while Sophie and her relatives are working on the boat?

2. How does Sophie feel about climbing all the way up to the bosun's chair?

3. What does Sophie's father say about her trip?

4. Who gave Sophie her journal?

5. What question does Brian ask Cody?

(see the answer key)

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