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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hump find Larsen doing during the night?
(a) Crying
(b) Sailing away
(c) Attempting sabotage
(d) Stealing their food

2. What do the men take along with their usual shot guns?
(a) Rifles
(b) Grenades
(c) Knives
(d) A machine gun

3. What do Hump and Brewster take it in turns to do?
(a) Torture Larsen
(b) Keep watch
(c) Work on the ship
(d) Talk to Larsen

4. What does Hump not express to Brewster?
(a) His love
(b) His hatred for seals
(c) His sickness
(d) His need for water

5. What does Hump do while Brewster sleeps?
(a) Watches her
(b) Reads
(c) Goes for a swim
(d) Mans the tiller

6. What does Larsen ask Hump for?
(a) The Islet's coordinates
(b) A paracetamol
(c) Some food
(d) His gun

7. What do Brewster and Hump decide it is best to do at night?
(a) Hold each other
(b) Sleep
(c) Stay awake
(d) Take turns keeping watch

8. Who appears on the ship's companionway?
(a) Death Larsen
(b) Leach
(c) Harrison
(d) Wolf Larsen

9. How does the story finish?
(a) Larsens comes back to life
(b) Brewster and Hump kiss
(c) The Cutter opens fire
(d) Hump trips and falls into the sea

10. What does Larsen give the wounded sailors?
(a) Blankets
(b) A beating
(c) Whisky
(d) Vodka

11. What eventually happens to the boat?
(a) It beaches on the shore
(b) It moves away from the prominence
(c) It is attacked by a shark
(d) It sinks

12. What are Hump and Brewster worried that Larsen will do?
(a) Talk to them
(b) Imprision them
(c) Rob them
(d) Hurt them

13. What do Hump and Brewster beach comb for?
(a) The spars and masts
(b) More seals
(c) Oysters
(d) Fossils

14. What does Larsen lose his ability to do?
(a) Love
(b) Remember
(c) Argue
(d) Speak

15. How does Hump stop Larsen from destroying his work again?
(a) Threatens him with a revolver
(b) Clubs him with a seal club
(c) Shoots him in the leg
(d) Ties him up

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hump unsuccessfully try to build?

2. What do they do when Brewster wakes up?

3. What mast do Hump and Brewster manage to step?

4. How does Hump internally refer to Brewster?

5. What do Hump and Brewster decide is their best option?

(see the answer keys)

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