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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 is the name of the ferry steamer?

2. Who approaches Hump on deck?

3. What Japanese islands does the Ghost arrive at?

4. What does Larsen ask Hump to do in exchange for not killing Leach and Johnson?

5. How does the narrator say the captain suffers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hump fee about Maude Brewster?

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

3. In what ways does Hump compare the sailors to women?

4. How does London use the biting in chapter 21 as a metaphor?

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

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

7. In what way does Hump admire Johnson?

8. Why does Hump think that Brewster needs protecting?

9. Describe Hump.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the novel's plot structure.

1) What is the premise of the novel? Does London stick closely to the premise?

2) What problems do the characters have to solve? How do they solve them?

3) Do you think the book concludes satisfactorily?

Essay Topic 2

Imagine you are stranded on a small islet. How do you think you would survive? What would you have done differently to Brewster and Hump?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following statement using two examples from the novel to support your argument: The situations in the novel become increasingly unbelievable.

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