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

3. Who does the narrator say the seal slaughter is for?

4. What relation is Death Larsen to Wolf Larsen?

5. Who does the narrator say were always about him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do you think Larsen finds Hump an interesting person to talk to?

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

5. Why does Hump think that Brewster needs protecting?

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

7. How is Mugridge's philosophy materialistic?

8. Describe the rescued ship.

9. How is chapter 14 a major turning point in the narrative?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is your opinion on seal hunting? Do you think it should be banned?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the character of Hump. What do you think the goal of his is? Does his character change as the novel progresses? Do you think Hump achieves his goal?

Essay Topic 3

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

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