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

2. What type of ship does Cody contact?

3. What English landmark do the travelers sit near, on a bench while they eat?

4. What does Cody's dad say about dolphins?

5. What level does Uncle Dock say the gale is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What injury does Cody sustain in the large wave that hits the boat?

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

3. What happens in the altercation between Sophie and Brian?

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

5. What is the significance of the stops the boat makes before setting out to sea?

6. What does Uncle Stew say about the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current?

7. How does Cody describe the fog on the ocean journey?

8. What do Stew and Mo argue about?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel is told from two different point of view, Sophie's and Cody's. Discuss point of view in the novel.

1) How is Sophie's point of view different from Cody's? What does having two points of view add to the story?

2) How would the novel be different if it were told from a neutral point of view, instead of through the characters' journals?

3) Why is the same scene often presented twice, by the two different narrators?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss careers in the novel.

1) How do the characters define themselves by their careers? How have Mo and Stew's careers changed them?

2) How does Sophie define herself by what she will be in the future? Why does she imagine different types of lives?

3) How do Sophie, Brian, and Cody view careers differently from each other?

Essay Topic 3

The sea and The Wanderer are the main settings of this novel. Discuss setting and its importance in the novel.

1) Why is the sea the main setting of the novel? In what ways is the sea personified in the novel? What does Sophie expect from it? How does she respond to it?

2) How does The Wanderer function as a setting of the novel? What does the boat contribute to the novel? Why does the author set the novel on this boat?

3) How does setting affect the beginning and end of the journey, when the characters are in Kentucky, Grand Manan, Ireland, England, and elsewhere? How are these settings different from the sea and The Wanderer?

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