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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What member of the crew is clinging to his life?
(a) Kelly
(b) Mugridge
(c) Leach
(d) Larsen
2. How many days away is Japan?
(a) Four days
(b) Eight days
(c) A day
(d) Two days
3. What desire does the narrator say he experiences for the first time?
(a) Violence
(b) Love
(c) Murder
(d) Lust
4. Who does Leach ask Hump to find for him back in San Francisco?
(a) His daughter
(b) His mother
(c) His wife
(d) His father
5. What does the narrator tell the captain he does for a living?
(a) He is a writer
(b) He is a student
(c) He is a gentleman
(d) He is a construction worker.
6. What does the narrator say that Larsen is?
(a) A socialist
(b) A fascist
(c) A womanizer
(d) A materialist
7. What does the narrator say he sees leaning out of the pilot house?
(a) A white bearded man
(b) A terror stricken sailor
(c) A monkey
(d) A terror stricken woman
8. Where was Brewster's ship heading for?
(a) Vietnam
(b) China
(c) Japan
(d) Korea
9. Who does Charley Furuthseth read to rest his brain?
(a) Roald Dahl
(b) Hegel
(c) Marx and Engels
(d) Nietzsche and Schopenhauser
10. What does the narrator hear Larsen groaning?
(a) Cleanse my soul
(b) God! God! God!
(c) Jesus save me
(d) The devil has my soul
11. What does the narrator say his task is during the slaughter of the seals?
(a) To skin the seals
(b) To reel in the seals
(c) To cook seal soup
(d) To tally the pelts
12. What does Larsen philosophize about?
(a) Seal hunting
(b) Religion
(c) His own death
(d) His brother's behavior
13. Who does the narrator say were always about him?
(a) The sailors
(b) His dogs
(c) Flies
(d) His mother and sisters
14. How does the narrator say Larsen treats his men?
(a) Like children
(b) Like nothing
(c) Like prisoners
(d) Like slaves
15. What happens to Mugridge before they pull him back on board?
(a) He drowns
(b) The rope strangles him
(c) A shark eats his feet
(d) He escapes
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Leach tell Hump to do?
2. With his new device who does the captain say can now navigate the ship?
3. One does Hump say Larsen is a culmination of?
4. Who does Larsen exclude from his table?
5. Who does Hump recognize Maud Brewster as?
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