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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.

What does Drax do during the first night the Volunteer is moored at it new location? (from Chapters 16-20)

Drax recirtes Biblical passages in a thunderous, loud voice.

He sets fire to the hold as a diversion so he can escape.

Drax organizes a sea chanty session to raise the crew's spirits.

Drax files through his restraints and fatally stabs one of the crew in the neck.

2.

What is the first thing that Black and other crewmen do after they pull Sumner from the frozen sea? (from Chapters 1-5)

They carry him back to the ship and cut off his frozen clothes with a shears.

The crewmen cover him with blankets and pound their fists on his frozen limbs.

They give him small spoonsfull of brandy.

They stoke the stove on the ship and slather him with lard.

3.

Why does the Volunteer stop in Lerwick, Scotland? (from Chapters 1-5)

To deliver mail from England.

To stay in a safe harbor until a winter storm passes.

To purchase new knives and other whaling tools.

To pick up some crew members from The Shetland Islands.

4.

What does the bear do to the Volunteer crew as they approach? (from Chapters 6-10)

The bear jumps in the water and rries to capsize the small whaling boat.

She attacks one of the men to defend her cub, biting off his arm at the shoulder.

The bear takes her baby on her back and swims around the boat, roaring loudly.

She roars and paces angrily on the nearby ice floe.

5.

What crime does Drax commit dockside before the Volunteer sails for the North Waters? (from Chapters 1-5)

He rapes and kills a young black boy.

He steals from Brownlee's medicine chest.

He visits a whore in the hotel where the men are drinking.

He forges a passport indicating he is Canadian.

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