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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who joins the honest sailors at the end of Chapter XVI?
(a) Tom
(b) Smollett
(c) Silver
(d) Abraham

2. How much more food than needed is prepared at the beginning of Chapter XXXI?
(a) At least five times what is needed
(b) Three times what is needed
(c) Twice what is needed
(d) None; there is not enough food for everyone

3. What does Jim head toward on the island in Chapter XXVII?
(a) The pirate camp
(b) The stockade
(c) Ben's shelter
(d) The treasure

4. What accusation does Livesey make about Jim in Chapter XXX?
(a) That he planned the mutiny for Silver
(b) That he is the leader of the mutineers
(c) That he is cowardly
(d) That he is a mutineer

5. What book of the Bible does Jim read from at the end of Chapter XXIX?
(a) Job
(b) Proverbs
(c) Revelation
(d) Exodus

6. Why is the boat at the beginning of Chapter XVII hard to maneuver?
(a) It is overloaded
(b) There are only two oars
(c) It has no rudder
(d) There is no wind for the sail

7. Who does Jim listen to as he waits for the wind to change in Chapter XXIII?
(a) The pirates’ drunken nonsense
(b) Cap’n Flint whistling
(c) The breeze in the trees that sounds ghostly
(d) The honest sailors singing

8. Who has a meeting in Chapter XXVIII about a second mutiny?
(a) The honest sailors
(b) Livesey
(c) The mutineers
(d) Silver

9. What does Livesey discover on the island in Chapter XVI?
(a) A damaged ship
(b) The treasure
(c) A cemetery
(d) The stockade

10. What does Jim see Israel hide in his jacket in Chapter XXVI?
(a) A knife
(b) The wallet of the dead man
(c) Brandy
(d) A pistol

11. Where did the item handed to Silver at the beginning of Chapter XXIX come from?
(a) The stockade
(b) Flint's treasure chest
(c) The Hispaniola
(d) The Bible

12. Who objects to throwing the corpse overboard in Chapter XXVI?
(a) Smollett
(b) Israel Hands
(c) Jim
(d) Silver

13. What does Jim hear at the end of Chapter XXIV?
(a) Cannon fire
(b) The coracle being destroyed by the Hispaniola
(c) A brawl
(d) Drunken singing

14. Where does Jim head in Chapter XXIV?
(a) The southern shore
(b) Back to the Hispaniola
(c) The northern shore
(d) The shoals

15. Whose voice reveals that the stockade is controlled by the pirates at the end of Chapter XXVII?
(a) Abraham's
(b) Cap'n Flint's
(c) Silver's
(d) Smollett's

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Tom fatally wounded in Chapter XVIII?

2. How many pirates are still alive at the beginning of Chapter XVIII?

3. Where does Jim want to take the boat he finds in Chapter XXII?

4. Where does Jim steer the Hispaniola in Chapter XXV?

5. Why do none of the pirates notice the change in the ship in Chapter XXIII?

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