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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is pleased about the ship’s new cook, according to the end of Chapter VIII?
(a) The ship's captain
(b) Trelawney
(c) The cook himself
(d) Livesey

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

3. What weapon does Jim have when he returns to the inn in Chapter IV?
(a) A hatchet
(b) A gun
(c) A dagger
(d) A sword

4. What does Jim look for when he searches through Billy’s clothing in Chapter IV?
(a) The money Billy owed in rent
(b) Any indication of next of kin
(c) A key to the sea chest
(d) A cause of death

5. What is the name of the blind man, as revealed in Chapter V?
(a) Billy Bones
(b) Pew
(c) Black Dog
(d) Cookie

6. Where was the ship obtained for the journey to Treasure Island?
(a) Edinburgh
(b) Belfast
(c) Bristol
(d) Wales

7. What is the name of the old sailor, as revealed in Chapter II?
(a) Cookie
(b) Billy Bones
(c) Bluebeard
(d) Jack Sparrow

8. What is missing from Smollett’s map of the island?
(a) Identifying landmarks
(b) The “X” marking the treasure’s location
(c) Nothing; it is an exact copy
(d) A name of the island

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

10. Who knows the island well, according to Chapter XII?
(a) Smollett
(b) Silver
(c) One of the crew members
(d) Livesey

11. What is the name of the officer in Chapter V that speaks with Jim?
(a) Linde
(b) Squat
(c) Dance
(d) Eames

12. Who stows away to go ashore with the sailors in Chapter XIII?
(a) Silver
(b) Smollett
(c) Trelawney
(d) Jim

13. Who leads the sailors ashore in Chapter XIII?
(a) Trelawney
(b) Silver
(c) Jim
(d) Smollett

14. Where do Jim and his mother hide at the end of Chapter IV?
(a) In a stable
(b) Under a bridge
(c) In an alley
(d) In the attic of the inn

15. What is the name of the tavern Jim goes to in Chapter VIII?
(a) The Spy-Glass
(b) The Leaky Cauldron
(c) The Gray Pony
(d) The Dog and Pony

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accompanies Jim from his hometown to where Trelawney and Livesey are in Chapter VII?

2. What does Jim see in the woods at the beginning of Chapter XV?

3. Who does Smollett consult with before allowing the men to go ashore in Chapter XIII?

4. Who or what is Admiral Benbow?

5. How much time does Billy say he has at the end of Chapter III?

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