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

2. What does Larsen do during the night?
(a) Go crazy
(b) Destroys the shears
(c) Imprisons Brewster
(d) Die

3. How does the Macedonia respond to the attack?
(a) It retreats
(b) It sends out more boats with armed men
(c) It chases the Ghost and fires its cannons
(d) It surrenders

4. What subject does Larsen turn the conversation to?
(a) Freud
(b) Seal hunting
(c) Religion
(d) Love

5. What is Hump too exhausted to do after a night out at sea?
(a) Take off his clothes
(b) Carry Brewster to bed
(c) Get to his bed
(d) Sleep

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Larsen deny?

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

3. What does Hump discover Larsen doing whilst investigating the ship?

4. What eventually happens to the boat?

5. What sea does Hump think they are in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Larsen alone?

4. Do you think it is strange that the Ghost appears on tn the shore?

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

6. How does Wolf Larsen make up for his boat's lack of power?

7. In what ways is Hump's lack of experience a severe disadvantage when he escapes the Ghost with Brewster?

8. How is the blind Larsen still a formidable force?

9. Describe Hump's 'rigging effort'?

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

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