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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Hump and Brewster use for a mattress?
(a) Raw seal meat
(b) Seal skin
(c) Dry moss
(d) Leaves

2. What do Brewster and Hump complete at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) The rigging
(b) The stone hut
(c) A kiss
(d) Larsens coffin

3. What does Hump despair about?
(a) Ever reaching Japan
(b) Being captured by pirates
(c) Larsen finding him
(d) Brewster ever loving him

4. How does Hump start a fire?
(a) With a shotgun shell
(b) With his cigarette lighter
(c) With two pieces of flint
(d) With a stick

5. How does the story finish?
(a) Hump trips and falls into the sea
(b) Brewster and Hump kiss
(c) The Cutter opens fire
(d) Larsens comes back to life

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brewster use to maintain a fire?

2. What do Brewster and Hump do after breakfast?

3. What does Larsen lose his ability to do?

4. What do Hump and Brewster take it in turns to do?

5. What do Hump and Brewster do for several days after?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Brewster's prediction that someone is coming go against her character?

2. What position do you think the Islet is that Hump and Brewster arrive at?

3. How do you think Hump's love for Brewster help him survive?

4. In what ways is Hump's lack of experience a severe disadvantage when he escapes the Ghost with Brewster?

5. In what has Hump gained power over Larsen?

6. Do you think Hump is worried about their survival?

7. How does Ghost's attack on the Macedonia put them on an even keel?

8. How does Hump learn how to kill the seals?

9. How do Hump's thoughts reflect the nature of the long journey?

10. In waht way could the reader see Larsen victorious over Hump?

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