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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. How long can Brewster expect to be aboard the ship?

2. What does Mugridge do to Larsen?

3. Why does hunting become dangerous?

4. What does Leach ask Hump the bearing for?

5. What does the narrator say the stout gentlemen is reading?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what a slop chest is.

2. How do Hump's presumptions about Larsen prove embarrassing in chapter 7?

3. Why does Hump think that Brewster needs protecting?

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

5. Describe the rescued ship.

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

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

8. How is Mugridge's philosophy materialistic?

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

10. How does Hump fee about Maude Brewster?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the characters of Hump and Larsen. How do their views differ? Are there any similarities between the two characters? Why do you think they both fall for for Brewster?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Why do you think the Ghost crew's mutiny does not work? How does the mutiny change the story? What do you think would have happened if the crew's mutiny was successful?

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