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

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

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

4. What do the crew spot in the water?
(a) Another ship
(b) A shark
(c) A dead body
(d) A whale

5. What does Larsen ask Hump to do in exchange for not killing Leach and Johnson?
(a) Give him money
(b) To find him a wife
(c) Never to try and kill him
(d) To help him escape the ship

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the captain do while Leach and Johnson drown?

3. When did Johansen last write to his mother?

4. With his new device who does the captain say can now navigate the ship?

5. Who does the narrator say were always about him?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Hump admire Johnson?

2. Why does Larsen think life is without value?

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

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

5. Describe the rescued ship.

6. How has Larsen's upbringing shaped him as a person?

7. Do you think Hump survival of the torrid conditions is realistic?

8. How is chapter 14 a major turning point in the narrative?

9. Why do you think Larsen finds Hump an interesting person to talk to?

10. What does Hump realize is the only factor considered aboard the ship?

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