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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the captain ask the hunters for?
(a) A remedy for his headache
(b) A bottle of whiskey
(c) A hunting knife
(d) A warm jacket

2. What does the narrator say the sea becomes like by eleven o'clock?
(a) Like marble
(b) Like glass
(c) Like cling film
(d) Like foil

3. What happens to Johnson and Leach by the end of the chapter?
(a) They drown
(b) Larsen captures them
(c) They escape
(d) They are saved by a passing ship

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

5. Who does Larsen take his anger out on?
(a) Maud
(b) Mugridge
(c) Hump
(d) Holyoak

Short Answer Questions

1. Who skippers the Macedonia?

2. What does the narrator liken himself to?

3. What does Larsen ask Hump to do in exchange for not killing Leach and Johnson?

4. What Japanese islands does the Ghost arrive at?

5. Why is Larsen angry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Hump.

2. In what way does Hump admire Johnson?

3. What is Hump's reaction to finding literature in Larsen's cabin?

4. How does London use the biting in chapter 21 as a metaphor?

5. How do Hump's presumptions about Larsen prove embarrassing in chapter 7?

6. In what different ways are Larsen and Hump attracted to Brewster?

7. How is Larsen's cruel nature illustrated in this chapter?

8. Describe what a slop chest is.

9. How does Hump take to the rest of the crew?

10. What do Hump and Brewster to do to survive Larsen's brutality?

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