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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Hump forgotten?
(a) Knives and forks
(b) Matches
(c) Beer
(d) Food

2. What do they do when Brewster wakes up?
(a) Sing
(b) Light some flares
(c) Eat breakfat
(d) Fish

3. What does Brewster see in the distance?
(a) A Japanese ship
(b) A whale
(c) Japan
(d) A United States Cutter

4. What do Hump and Brewster use for a mattress?
(a) Dry moss
(b) Seal skin
(c) Leaves
(d) Raw seal meat

5. What happens to Larsen in the hold?
(a) His teeth begin to fall out
(b) He develops boils
(c) He dies
(d) He becomes completely paralysed

6. What does Hump discover Larsen doing whilst investigating the ship?
(a) Clasping his head and moaning
(b) Vomiting
(c) Banging his head aginst the wall
(d) Having a conversation with himself

7. How much does Hump clear the beach by?
(a) Half an inch
(b) An inch
(c) A few feet
(d) Five meters

8. What do Brewster and Hump complete at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) Larsens coffin
(b) The stone hut
(c) A kiss
(d) The rigging

9. How does Hump internally refer to Brewster?
(a) Silly girl
(b) Funny face
(c) My woman, my mate
(d) My wife

10. How long does it take to construct the shears?
(a) A whole day
(b) A week
(c) Two days
(d) Four days

11. What does Hump spend the next day doing?
(a) Sleeping
(b) Making a truce with Larsen
(c) Making more shears
(d) Kedging the ship

12. What does Hump devise a plan to do?
(a) Re-rig the ship
(b) Kill Larsen
(c) Have a party
(d) Kill more seals

13. What does Hump change the sails to indicate?
(a) How are you doing
(b) We are also American
(c) Clear distress
(d) We are pirates

14. What does Hump see when he wakes up?
(a) A naked Brewster
(b) The Macedonia
(c) The Ghost
(d) Dark clouds

15. What threatens to exhaust their ammunition before they have enough seal skin?
(a) Humps bad markmanship
(b) A group of sailors
(c) A storm
(d) Damp bullets

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Larsen try to capture Hump?

2. What does Brewster predict is going to happen?

3. What do Hump and Brewster beach comb for?

4. What kind of hut do Brewster and Hump build on the island?

5. What does Hump find Larsen doing during the night?

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