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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 see when he wakes up?
(a) Dark clouds
(b) The Ghost
(c) A naked Brewster
(d) The Macedonia

2. What does Hump despair about?
(a) Ever reaching Japan
(b) Brewster ever loving him
(c) Larsen finding him
(d) Being captured by pirates

3. How does Hump start a fire?
(a) With a stick
(b) With two pieces of flint
(c) With his cigarette lighter
(d) With a shotgun shell

4. What threatens to exhaust their ammunition before they have enough seal skin?
(a) A storm
(b) A group of sailors
(c) Damp bullets
(d) Humps bad markmanship

5. What does Hump devise a plan to do?
(a) Have a party
(b) Re-rig the ship
(c) Kill Larsen
(d) Kill more seals

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men take along with their usual shot guns?

2. What does the narrator say Larsen's argument is based upon?

3. What does Brewster see in the distance?

4. Where does Larsen try to capture Hump?

5. What do Larsen and Brewster talk about at dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Larsen alone?

2. In what has Hump gained power over Larsen?

3. How does Hump learn how to kill the seals?

4. Waht does Hump do once he realizes he holds the power over Larsen?

5. How has Hump achieved the goal London set for him at the beginning of the novel?

6. In why has Hump's personal philosophy changed?

7. How do Hump's thoughts reflect the nature of the long journey?

8. In what way do Hump and Brewster unknowingly fail the now dead Larsen?

9. How does Brewster's prediction that someone is coming go against her character?

10. How is Hump and Brewster arrival on the islet timely?

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