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- "Johnson," Wolf Larsen said, "I understand you're not quite satisfied
- with those oilskins?"
- "No, I am not. They are no good, sir."
- "And you've been shooting off your mouth about them."
- "I say what I think, sir," the sailor answered courageously, not
- failing at the same time in ship courtesy, which demanded that "sir" be
- appended to each speech he made.
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- 1. We can infer that the scene takes place
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- A. in a house
- B. on the street
- C. on a ship
- D. in a bar
- E. in a law court
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- B
- Correct.
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- B
- The scene takes place on a ship, as "sailor" and "ship courtesy" suggest. (C)
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- B
- It was at this moment that I chanced to glance at Johansen. His big
- fists were clenching and unclenching, and his face was positively fiendish,
- so malignantly did he look at Johnson. I noticed a black discoloration
- still faintly visible, under Johansen's eye, a mark of the thrashing he had
- received a few nights before from the sailor.
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- 1. From the narrator's description of Johansen, we can assume
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- A. he admires Johnson
- B. he detests Johnson
- C. he is a small man
- D. he is the ship's captain
- E. he owns the ship
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- C
- Correct.
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- C
- Johansen despises Johnson. (B)
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- C
- "Do you know what happens to men who say what you've said about my
- slop-chest and me?" Wolf Larsen was demanding.
- "I know, sir," was the answer.
- "What?" Wolf Larsen demanded, sharply and imperatively.
- "What you and the mate there are going to do to me, sir."
- "Look at him, Hump," Wolf Larsen said to me. "What do you think of him,
- Hump? What do you think of him?"
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- 1. Larsen is obviously
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- A. the owner of the ship
- B. Johnson's superior
- C. a lawyer
- D. a friend of Johnson's
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- D
- Correct.
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- D
- Johnson's submissiveness indicates that Larsen is his superior. (B)
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- D
- "I think that he is a better man than you are," I answered, impelled,
- somehow, with a desire to draw upon myself a portion of the wrath I felt
- was about to break upon his head. "His human fictions, as you choose to
- call them, make for nobility and manhood. You have no fictions, no dreams
- no ideals. You are a pauper."
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- 1. Hump appears to be
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- A. afraid of Larsen
- B. Larsen's superior officer
- C. a bystander who does not want to get involved
- D. a man who can argue with Larsen
- E. physically stronger than Larsen
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- 2
- Correct.
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- Hump is capable of arguing with Larsen. (D)
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- 2. When Hump calls Larsen a pauper, he means
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- A. Larsen owns nothing of value
- B. Larsen has none of the thoughts that make life worthwhile
- C. Larsen is lucky to be alive
- D. Larsen does not know what is important in life
- E. Larsen has no money
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- E
- Correct.
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- E
- Larsen has no ideals or values which give life meaning. (B)
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- E
- He nodded his head with a savage pleasantness. "Quite true, Hump,
- quite true. I have no fictions that make for nobility and manhood. A
- living dog is better than a dead lion, say I with the Preacher. My only
- doctrine is the doctrine of expediency, and it makes for surviving. This
- bit of the ferment we call 'Johnson,' when he is no longer a bit of the
- ferment, only dust and ashes, will have no more nobility than any dust and
- ashes, while I shall still be alive and roaring."
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- 1. Larsen's definition of the doctrine of expediency is
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- A. Survive by any means
- B. Live by the Golden Rule
- C. Never tell a lie
- D. Always cheat everyone
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- a
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- F
- Correct.
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- F
- Larsen equates the doctrine of expediency with survival at all cost. (A)
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- F
- "Do you know what I am going to do?" he questioned. I shook my head.
- "Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you
- how fares nobility. Watch me."
- Three yards away from Johnson he was, and sitting down. Nine feet!
- And yet he left the chair, just as he sat in it, squarely, springing from
- the sitting posture like a wild animal, a tiger, and like a tiger covered
- the intervening space. It was an avalanche of fury that Johnson strove
- vainly to fend off.
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- 1. Larsen might be characterized as
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- A. stupid
- B. cruel
- C. Cynical
- D. B and C
- E. A and B
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- G
- Correct.
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- G
- Larsen is cruel and cynical, but he is not stupid. (D)
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