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- 1. Multiple Choice
What makes rogue waves especially dangerous?
They travel great distances.
They are driven by winds.
They cannot be predicted.
They occur in warm waters.
- 2. Multiple Choice
What evidence in the text supports the inference that Sully was a competent sailor?
Scoot thought he was a good teacher.
He’d been around boats for most of his life.
He’d borrowed the boat from a family friend.
He thought the Sea Dog was the best in her category.
- 3. Multiple Choice
What gave Sully hope that Scoot could survive for some time in the cabin?
The Sea Dog was heavy and sturdy.
There was enough room to stand and walk around.
There was at least a three-foot air pocket.
The hatch doors were still closed.
- 4. Multiple Choice
How did Sully communicate with Scoot to escape through the skylight?
He pounded his fists on the hull using Morse Code.
He used mental telepathy.
He swam down and mouthed instructions to her through the window.
He tapped on the skylight.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which word best describes Sully’s feelings while he was diving repeatedly, trying to free Scoot?
confused
resentful
confident
frustrated
- 6. Multiple Choice
Scoot began to feel certain that she’d survive when. . .
she remembered the flashlight.
she heard Sully pounding.
she came out of shock.
she found the toolbox.
- 7. Multiple Choice
What happens after Scoot awakens and realizes she is trapped and the boat is upside down.
Sully tries to use mental telepathy by repeating “Skylight” in hopes Scoot will find the will to save herself and realize it’s the only way out.
Scoot receives her brother’s mental message and realizes what she has to do. She finds an emergency flashlight and a wrench and makes several attempts to unscrew each of the brass dogs on the skylight.
Scoot finds a knife and uses it to tap on the hull. Sully hears her and pounds back with his fists. They call out to each other, but neither of them hear each other’s voices.
Scoot unfastens the last brass dog of the skylight and pushes herself through to the ocean.
- 8. Multiple Choice
How did the setting have a similar effect on BOTH characters?
It caused them both to be trapped in the galley.
It caused them both to be badly injured.
It caused them both to be persistent.
It caused them both to learn how to sail.
- 9. Multiple Choice
How did the setting affect the characters in different ways?
Scoot was helpful; Sully was scared.
Scoot was helpless; Sully had to rely on himself.
Sully was helpful; Scoot was scared
Sully was helpless; Scoot had to rely on herself.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which evidence below BEST supports the theme: When you are faced with adversity, or misfortune, you must find it within yourself to persevere.
"Scoot has seen a toolbox under the companionway steps and went back to try and find it."
"She tried to turn it, but it was too tight for her muscles and she rose up to breathe again.
"Four times Scoot needed to dive, once for each dog; and working underwater was five times as difficult."
"On her sixth dive, Scoot found a way to brace her feet against the ceiling ribs. She pushed with all her strength, and this time the window opened."
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which sentence below uses the word “swell” in the same context as it is used in the story?
Her forearm was starting to swell, as if she'd broken or sprained it.
Now we have a swell winter outfit--coats, hats, gowns, flannels and all.
In consequence of the swell, the ship is continually pitching in a somewhat irregular way.
She felt his magic swell around him, the fire in his gaze sizzling through her blood.
- 12. Multiple Choice
Select the vocabulary term that best completes the sentence below.
After the devastating storm, rescuers began digging through the ___________________ in search of survivors.
hydrography
swells
fulcrum
alcove
debris
- 13. Multiple Choice
Select the vocabulary term that best completes the sentence below.
The governor __________________ the damage caused by the massive storm.
surveyed
submerged
mantraed
fulcrumed
debrised
- 14. Multiple Choice
Select the vocabulary term that best completes the sentence below.
Tom said to move the plank closer to the ______________________ so he will be able to lift the rock off the ground.
swell
porthole
alcove
fulcrum
debris
- 15. Multiple Choice
Select the vocabulary term that best completes the sentence below.
In the movie Finding Nemo, Dory’s personal _______________________ is to “just keep swimming.”
swell
mantra
alcove
porthole
hydrography
- 16. Multiple Choice
Why did Sully think that they might be found by another boat?
They were within twenty miles of the coast.
The Sea Dog had the best equipment.
The weather was clear.
He was waving frantically.
- 17. Multiple Choice
In which stage of the plot does the excerpt below take place?
“The Old Sea Dog stayed on the surface for a little while longer, having delivered her survivors to safety; then her air pocket breathed its last and she slipped beneath the water, headed for the bottom.”
rising action
inciting incident
climax
falling action
resolution
- 18. Multiple Choice
When we first meet Scoot and learn about the characteristics of a rogue wave, we are in the
exposition
inciting incident
climax
conflixt
falling action
- 19. Multiple Choice
In which stage of the plot does the excerpt below take place?
“On her sixth dive Scoot found a way to brace her feet on the ceiling ribs. She pushed with all her strength, and this time the window opened. Almost out of breath, she quickly pushed her body through, and the Old Sea Dog released her.”
rising action
inciting incident
climax
falling action
resolution
- 20. Multiple Choice
Select the correct answer that has the elements of plot listed in the correct order.
rising action, inciting incident, rising action, climax. falling action, resolution
exposition, rising action, inciting incident, climax, resolution, falling action
exposition, climax, rising action, falling action, inciting incident, resolution
resolution, falling action, climax, rising action, inciting incident, exposition
exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax. falling action, resolution
- 21. Multiple Choice
Sully blaming himself for Scoot being stuck inside the cabin of the overturned sail boat is an example of which type of conflict?
character vs. character
character vs. nature
character vs. self
character vs. society
- 22. Multiple Choice
The majority of a story is featured in which section of a plot diagram?
exposition
inciting incident
rising action
climax
falling action
- 23. Multiple Choice
What was the name of the sail boat Scoot and Sully were aboard?
Old Salty Dog
Old Wavy Dog
Old Tired Dog
Old Sea Dog
- 24. Multiple Choice
Which tools helped Scoot escape from the galley?
flashlight and a knife
a flashlight and a wrench
telepathy and a wrench
a knife and scuba gear
- 25. Multiple Choice
If a boat is submerged, it is
covered by water.
upside down.
broken apart.
vertical.
- 26. Multiple Choice
Why can't Sully go down and save Scoot?
He has no tools to help him get into the galley.
He thinks she is dead.
He might hurt her trying to get inside.
He is too hurt.
- 27. Multiple Choice
Which event occurs in the falling action of this story?
Sully bloodies his hand by pounding on the boat.
Scoot blacks out.
Scoot tries to open the skylight.
Scoot and Sully hold each other for warmth all night.
- 28. Multiple Choice
Why did Theodore Taylor, the author, use italics for some portions of the text, especially in the beginning of the story?
to highlight the exposition and rising action in the story and ensure that reader knew it was important
to show that those lines were not a part of the plot of the story, but were actually providing scientifically correct background information
to show a change in perspective in the text - switching from Sully to Scoot as whose thoughts/feelings were being explained
to show that the story was a piece of nonfiction/informational text not a fictional short story
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