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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do the captain and Hump find on the look out?
(a) Leach
(b) Johansen
(c) Holyoak
(d) Harrison

2. Where are the life preservers stored?
(a) Below deck
(b) In the cabin
(c) In the rescue boats
(d) In the hold

3. What does the narrator see Larsen reading?
(a) The bible
(b) Fear and Trembling
(c) Das Capital
(d) Ecco Homo

4. What kind of boat does the captain have?
(a) A dingey
(b) A sail boat
(c) A row boat
(d) A raft

5. What two people does Hump watch?
(a) Harrison and Johansen
(b) Brewster and Larsen
(c) Holyoak and Larsen
(d) Kelly and Brewster

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

7. Who does Larsen exclude from his table?
(a) Everyone
(b) Brewster
(c) The seal hunters
(d) Hump

8. Who does the narrator say were always about him?
(a) The sailors
(b) His mother and sisters
(c) Flies
(d) His dogs

9. What does Johansen tell Harrison to do?
(a) Steer the boat
(b) Go out the halyards
(c) Fetch the captain
(d) Raise the mast

10. What reason does Hump give Larsen for why the men are behaving so badly?
(a) Cabin fever
(b) Larsen's domineering nature
(c) Too many hours working
(d) A lack of food

11. What does the narrator say he is suffering from?
(a) Scurvy
(b) Sea sickness
(c) Boils
(d) Scabies

12. What is the Cook's full name?
(a) Davide Johnson
(b) Thomas Mugridge
(c) Phillip Yonson
(d) Bill Mugridge

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

14. Who does the narrator say the seal slaughter is for?
(a) The Japanese government
(b) Women
(c) The sailors
(d) The fashion industry

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What direction does the Ghost now follow?

2. Who does Leach ask Hump to find for him back in San Francisco?

3. Who interrupts Brewster and Hump's conversation?

4. What does the narrator liken himself to?

5. What does the narrator tell the captain he does for a living?

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