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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rosalie appear, when the travelers arrive at the house where she is?
(a) Angry.
(b) Happy.
(c) Confused.
(d) Sad.

2. What type of ship does Cody contact?
(a) A Canadian warship.
(b) A French cargo ship.
(c) A South American tanker.
(d) An American cruise ship.

3. In Sophie's story, what do Bompie and his father do after Bompie brings his father a pie?
(a) They argue.
(b) They cry.
(c) They hug.
(d) They laugh.

4. What job does Uncle Stew get?
(a) A job with a company that tracks ocean temperatures.
(b) A job with a company that tracks fish populations.
(c) A job with a company that makes sail boats.
(d) A job with a company that charts the ocean's bottom.

5. What does Cody do after dreaming about Sophie's story about Bompie and his father?
(a) Cody wakes up his father.
(b) Cody gets up and wanders restlessly around the boat.
(c) Cody wakes up Sophie.
(d) Cody goes up and sits on the deck, staring at the water.

6. Where are Sophie and Cody, when Sophie tell him the story of Bompie at the ocean?
(a) At the helm.
(b) At the masthead.
(c) In their bunks.
(d) In the galley.

7. What does Sophie think, as the wave breaks over her and she is inside the water?
(a) Hold that breath, Sophie.
(b) This is it, Sophie.
(c) The wave, oh, the wave!
(d) Stay facing up, Sophie.

8. What kind of "life insurance" does Sophie imagine getting at the end of Chapter 33?
(a) Insurance that life will be happy.
(b) Insurance that life will be long.
(c) Insurance that life will be quiet and stable.
(d) Insurance that life will be interesting.

9. What does Cody's dad say about dolphins?
(a) Makes you want to draw them.
(b) Crazy life for a mammal.
(c) Too bad they're just fish.
(d) Makes you wish you were a fish.

10. What kind of knot does Cody learn from Sophie?
(a) A power cinch.
(b) A clove hitch.
(c) An alpine coil.
(d) A double constrictor knot.

11. What level does Uncle Dock say the gale is?
(a) Force-eleven.
(b) Force-nine.
(c) Force-eight.
(d) Force-ten.

12. What does Uncle Stew do for a living?
(a) He is a medical assistant.
(b) He manages an apartment building.
(c) He sells insurance.
(d) He is an accountant.

13. Does Bompie remember the stories Sophie tells him?
(a) No, he doesn't remember them at all.
(b) Yes, he remembers everything Sophie recounts.
(c) Yes, except for the parts about being in the water.
(d) No, except for one story.

14. What is Sophie doing that causes her to kneel on the deck just before she suddenly looks up and can't see anyone on deck?
(a) Fastening a line.
(b) Tying her shoe.
(c) Examining a pump.
(d) Repairing a leak.

15. How do the travelers get from Ireland to Wales?
(a) On a ferry.
(b) In a plane.
(c) On a bridge.
(d) Through a tunnel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who answers the door at Bompie's house?

2. When Cody's father tells him that Cody's been a good son and he's been a bad father, what does Cody think?

3. What color blanket does the little kid lie down on in the story Sophie tells Cody?

4. What job does Sophie always end up with in the windstorm?

5. What does Sophie do when she finally realizes that she's telling Bompie her own story?

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