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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim see in the distance at the end of Chapter XV?
(a) A second ship
(b) The Union Jack
(c) Silver
(d) A cavern

2. What role does the sailor who helped Trelawney have on the crew?
(a) Cook
(b) Cabin boy
(c) Navigator
(d) Swabbie

3. Who replaces the sailor who disappears mysteriously in Chapter X?
(a) Mr. Arrow
(b) Smollett
(c) Silver
(d) Job

4. Who is the captain Billy once sailed under, according to Chapter III?
(a) Ahab
(b) Silver
(c) Flint
(d) Pike

5. Who or what is Admiral Benbow?
(a) A restaurant owned by Squire Trelawney
(b) The pirate who gives Jim the treasure map
(c) An inn owned by Jim’s father
(d) The captain of the ship that takes the narrator to the island

6. Where does Chapter VI take place?
(a) Trelawney’s home
(b) The inn
(c) Livesey’s home
(d) The local police station

7. What does the old sailor use at the end of Chapter I to threaten someone?
(a) A knife
(b) A gun
(c) A sword
(d) His fists

8. What does the narrator omit about the island as he begins his story?
(a) Its exact location
(b) The exact amount of the treasure buried there
(c) Its true name
(d) How he found out about the treasure

9. What happened to the men who helped Flint bury his treasure, according to Chapter XV?
(a) They were arrested for piracy
(b) They were left for dead on the island
(c) Flint killed them
(d) They ran from Flint

10. What does the blind man tell the others will cause them to be rich?
(a) Scattering and not being found by authorities
(b) Killing Jim
(c) Covering up Billy’s death
(d) Finding the missing object

11. Who sent a letter to Livesey to let him know the ship and crew were obtained, according to Chapter VII?
(a) The ship's captain
(b) Trelawney
(c) A courier
(d) Jim

12. Who is Cap’n Flint?
(a) The nickname of the ship
(b) Silver's parrot
(c) The ship's captain
(d) Mr. Arrow's cat

13. Who cautions the old sailor in Chapter I?
(a) Jim's mother
(b) Livesey
(c) Trelawney
(d) Jim

14. Who is the author of Treasure Island?
(a) Oscar Wilde
(b) Robert Louis Stevenson
(c) Walt Whitman
(d) Jules Verne

15. Who does Jim see leave the tavern when he meets up with the ship’s cook?
(a) Long John Silver
(b) Pew
(c) Black Dog
(d) Billy Bones

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the blind man, as revealed in Chapter V?

2. What does Jim look for when he searches through Billy’s clothing in Chapter IV?

3. What did Ben make on the island?

4. Who agrees to help Billy in Chapter IV when Jim goes to get help?

5. What causes the men to flee in Chapter V?

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