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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of the following does Brewster say about Larsen?
(a) He is violent
(b) He is mad
(c) He is ill
(d) He is blind
2. What do Brewster and Hump decide it is best to do at night?
(a) Stay awake
(b) Hold each other
(c) Take turns keeping watch
(d) Sleep
3. What do Hump and Brewster do for several days after?
(a) Club seals
(b) Try and drive Larsen away
(c) Beach comb
(d) Sleep
4. How many Macedonia boats do the Ghost crew take over?
(a) Five
(b) Nine
(c) Seven
(d) Three
5. What are Hump and Brewster worried that Larsen will do?
(a) Rob them
(b) Talk to them
(c) Hurt them
(d) Imprision them
6. What do Brewster and Hump do after breakfast?
(a) Go for a swim
(b) Go seal hunting
(c) Set sail around the tiny island
(d) Frolic in the sand
7. What does Hump spend the next day doing?
(a) Making a truce with Larsen
(b) Making more shears
(c) Sleeping
(d) Kedging the ship
8. How long does Hump sleep for?
(a) Eighteen hours
(b) Two days
(c) Three days
(d) Two hours
9. What do Hump and Brewster construct on the ship?
(a) A mast
(b) Another cabin
(c) Shears
(d) A statue of Larsen
10. What do Larsen and Brewster talk about at dinner?
(a) The nature of temptation and the soul
(b) How to navigate a ship
(c) The poetry of Emily Dickinson
(d) The ethics of seal hunting
11. What does hump see ahead?
(a) A boat
(b) A whale
(c) Japan's coastline
(d) A large craggy prominence
12. What do they do when Brewster wakes up?
(a) Fish
(b) Sing
(c) Light some flares
(d) Eat breakfat
13. How does Hump start a fire?
(a) With a shotgun shell
(b) With two pieces of flint
(c) With a stick
(d) With his cigarette lighter
14. What threatens to exhaust their ammunition before they have enough seal skin?
(a) Damp bullets
(b) Humps bad markmanship
(c) A group of sailors
(d) A storm
15. What does the prominence appear to be?
(a) A seal rookery
(b) A penguin rookery
(c) A war zone
(d) A Japanese tourist resort
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Hump discover about Larsen?
2. What does Hump do when he sees the Ghost?
3. What kind of hut do Brewster and Hump build on the island?
4. How much does Hump clear the beach by?
5. What does Hump instruct Brewster on?
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