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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. How long does it take Hump to put up the sails?
(a) Five days
(b) Three days
(c) Seven days
(d) Eight days

2. What does Hump do for the first time in many weeks at the end of the chapter?
(a) Plays marbles
(b) Drinks clean, unsalty water
(c) Has an initimate conversation
(d) Sleeps undercover

3. Who joins Brewster and Larsen for breakfast?
(a) Death Larsen
(b) Harrison
(c) All the hunters
(d) Hump

4. What happens to Larsen during this time
(a) He goes deaf
(b) He contracts the scurvy
(c) He becomes paralyzed along one side of his body
(d) He dies

5. What do Hump and Brewster do to kill the seals when their ammunition runs out?
(a) Drown them
(b) Club them
(c) Stab them
(d) Poison them

Short Answer Questions

1. How big is the prominence in circumference?

2. What does Larsen give the wounded sailors?

3. Who appears on the ship's companionway?

4. Where does Larsen sleep whilst on the islet?

5. What does Larsen deny?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Hump overcome Larsen's destruction of his work?

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

4. Do you think London is inconsistent with Hump's character in this chapter?

5. In what could you construe Larsen as a pure character?

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

7. How do you think Hump's love for Brewster help him survive?

8. How does Ghost's attack on the Macedonia put them on an even keel?

9. Why is Larsen alone?

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

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