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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hump say Brewster's body is the finished product of?

2. How many days away is Japan?

3. How does the narrator say Larsen treats his men?

4. What does Hump say happens if he does nothing?

5. What does Hump say will happen if he tries to change things?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mugridge's attitude change towards Hump?

2. How is Larsen's cruel nature illustrated in this chapter?

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

4. How does Hump feel about Larsen spending so much time with Brewster?

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

6. How is Death Larsen more powerful than his brother's boat?

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

8. How are Larsen and Hump views on the battle with nature different?

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

10. Why do you think Brewster so readily agrees to Hump's suggestion that she stays with Larsen to keep him calm?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the differences between self-learning and formal education.

1) Which in your opinion is the more valuable method of learning and why?

2) Do you think Larsen and Hump learn from each others very different upbringings. Support your answer with two examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Using two examples from the book discuss the following discuss the following statement; Sea-Wolf is an attack on Nietzsche's super-man philosophy.

Essay Topic 3

In what ways do you think that Hump idealizes Brewster? What do these ideals say about Hump's character? How different do you think Brewster is to Hump's ideal woman?

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