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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who helps Jim seek help for Billy at the beginning of Chapter IV?
(a) Trelawney
(b) The blind man
(c) Livesey
(d) Jim’s mother

3. What does Flint’s log track, according to Chapter VI?
(a) Money his sailors borrowed from him
(b) His crew
(c) The places he acquired loot
(d) Bets he placed on fights

4. What plot does Jim learn about in Chapter XI?
(a) A practical joke that goes wrong
(b) A mutiny
(c) An assassination
(d) A robbery

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who cautions the old sailor in Chapter I?

2. What is the name of the tavern Jim goes to in Chapter VIII?

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

4. What is hidden at the bottom of Billy’s sea chest?

5. What does the blind man tell the others will cause them to be rich?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the old sailor terrorize the customers at the inn in Chapter I?

2. What do Billy’s former crewmates want from him?

3. What happens between Silver and Tom in Chapter XIV?

4. How does Silver refer to pirates in Chapter XI?

5. Why is Billy unable to kill Black Dog in Chapter II?

6. What does Livesey warn Billy against at the end of Chapter II? Why?

7. Why is the crew irritable when they approach the island in Chapter XIII?

8. According to Chapter I, how does the story of Treasure Island come to be written?

9. What do Jim and his mother find in Billy’s sea chest in Chapter IV?

10. What happens to Jim’s mother when they leave the inn during Chapter IV?

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