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The North Water Quiz

Ian McGuire

This Study Guide consists of approximately 38 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The North Water.

The North Water by Ian McGuire

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

How does Sumner exonerate McKendrick as the killer of the cabin boy? (from Chapters 11-15)

There are no witnesses who saw Hannah and McKendrick together.

Sumner finds that McKendrick was not on the ship that night.

He demonstrates that McKendrick's thumbs do not match the stranguation bruises on Hannah's neck.

He questions each crewman individually.

2.

What form of spirituality does Otto practice? (from Chapters 6-10)

Catholicism.

Lutheran.

Swedenborgian.

Transcendental.

3.

What does Jacob Baxter do to avoid prosecution for insurance fraud and murder? (from Chapters 21-25)

Baxter offers gold coins to Sumner as hush money.

He threatens to report Sumner to police as the killer of Hannah, the Volunteer cabin boy.

Baxter pulls a gun on Sumner.

He devises a plot to have Drax, his co-conspirator, charged with sexuasl deviancy.

4.

What does Sumner do when the Volunteer is having trouble docking because of advancing ice floes? (from Chapters 16-20)

Sumner stays in his cabin drinking tea and taking laudanum.

The surgeon gives advice on how to work the ship into harbor without damaging it.

Sumner gives Drax a shovel and pick and tells him to join his fellow crewmen.

Sumner writes in his daily chronicle of the journey.

5.

What does Henry Drax say about the murder of the cabin boy Hannah? (from Chapters 6-10)

Drax says he saw Hannah pick a fight with another crewman.

Hannah had mentioned suicide several times before his death.

Drax says Hanna was a chronic liar.

That Hannah was a known homosexual.

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