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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long can Brewster expect to be aboard the ship?
(a) Six months
(b) Four months
(c) Ten months
(d) Eight months

2. What does Hump say happens if he does nothing?
(a) He gets promoted
(b) He survives
(c) People like him
(d) He dies

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

4. What does Leach ask Hump the bearing for?
(a) Yokohama
(b) Tokyo
(c) Osaka
(d) Kyoto

5. What position does the captain give the narrator?
(a) Second mate
(b) Cabin boy
(c) Cook
(d) First mate

6. Who interrupts Brewster and Hump's conversation?
(a) Larsen
(b) Holyoak
(c) Harrison
(d) Mugridge

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

8. What does the narrator say he has never placed placed proper value upon?
(a) Religon
(b) His family
(c) Mankind
(d) Womankind

9. How long do Johnson and Leach pursue them for?
(a) Two hours
(b) Four hours
(c) Three hours
(d) Ten hours

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

11. What does the narrator say knowing Larsen helps him understand?
(a) Cabin fever
(b) Hegel
(c) Scandinavian myths
(d) Nietzsche

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

13. What does Leach tell Hump to do?
(a) Leave the boat
(b) Keep his mouth shut
(c) Go home
(d) Kill Larsen

14. What does Hump say will happen if he tries to change things?
(a) He survives
(b) He becomes captain
(c) He gets beaten
(d) He dies

15. What desire does the narrator say he experiences for the first time?
(a) Violence
(b) Lust
(c) Murder
(d) Love

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Larsen angry?

2. What does the narrator say Harrison gives the appearance of?

3. Which two men shoot at the deserters?

4. How does Johansen know his mother his still alive?

5. What does the narrator say that Larsen is?

(see the answer keys)

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