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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Larsen ask the cook to be careful of?
(a) Fat content
(b) His health
(c) Storing the meat
(d) The quality of his cooking

2. What does Hump say Brewster's body is the finished product of?
(a) The finest civilisation
(b) The finest artists
(c) Two beautiful people
(d) Great minds

3. How does the narrator describe Wolf Larsen's eyes?
(a) Sad and grey
(b) Large and handsome
(c) Small and piglike
(d) Huge and glaring

4. Which character talks in his sleep?
(a) Larsen
(b) Johansen
(c) Leach
(d) Johnson

5. What does the narrator say his task is during the slaughter of the seals?
(a) To skin the seals
(b) To reel in the seals
(c) To cook seal soup
(d) To tally the pelts

6. What does the narrator say that Larsen is?
(a) A fascist
(b) A materialist
(c) A socialist
(d) A womanizer

7. What does the narrator say the Ghost was built for?
(a) pirating
(b) Fishing
(c) Carrying heavy goods
(d) Speed

8. Why does Larsen kick Hump?
(a) He refuses to work
(b) He throws the ashes into a wind
(c) He spits in his face
(d) He threatens to leave the boat

9. What does Larsen order his men to do to Mugridge?
(a) Drown him in soup
(b) Tow him
(c) Beat him
(d) Put him in the hold

10. With his new device who does the captain say can now navigate the ship?
(a) A child
(b) Hump
(c) A woman
(d) A dog

11. Who does Larsen become possessive of?
(a) Holyoak
(b) Hump
(c) Brewster
(d) Harrison

12. What does the narrator hear Larsen groaning?
(a) God! God! God!
(b) The devil has my soul
(c) Cleanse my soul
(d) Jesus save me

13. What does the narrator say the stout gentlemen is reading?
(a) The Ferry Boater
(b) The New York Times
(c) The Fisherman
(d) The Atlantic

14. When did Johansen last write to his mother?
(a) Five years ago
(b) Eight years ago
(c) Ten years ago
(d) Two years ago

15. Who does the narrator say Larsen is worse off than?
(a) Herod
(b) Harrison
(c) Hitler
(d) Omar

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the boat called the hunters see in the distance?

2. Who do the captain and Hump find on the look out?

3. What does Brewster urge Hump to do?

4. At what age did Johansen leave Sweden?

5. Where are the life preservers stored?

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