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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 does Hump discover Larsen doing whilst investigating the ship?

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

3. How does the story finish?

4. Who offered Larsen's men more money?

5. What does Larsen forbid Hump and Brewster to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Waht does Hump do once he realizes he holds the power over Larsen?

2. Describe Hump's 'rigging effort'?

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

4. Describe the technical detail goes into when Hump erects the shears.

5. What happens to Brewster and Hump's boat once they take for the seas?

6. Why is Larsen alone?

7. In why has Hump's personal philosophy changed?

8. In what way do Hump and Brewster unknowingly fail the now dead Larsen?

9. Describe the islet.

10. How has Hump achieved the goal London set for him at the beginning of the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Examine the novel's chronological setting. What was happening in the USA during the time the novel was set? Are these concerns reflected in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Compare the characters of Hump and Larsen. How do their views differ? Are there any similarities between the two characters? Why do you think they both fall for for Brewster?

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