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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 Jim see in the woods at the beginning of Chapter XV?
(a) A human figure in the woods
(b) A human skeleton
(c) The treasure
(d) A second ship

2. What happens to Billy at the end of Chapter II?
(a) He contracts tuberculosis
(b) He is stabbed
(c) He has a heart attack
(d) He has a stroke

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

4. Who catches sight of Jim at the end of Chapter XIII?
(a) Silver
(b) Trelawney
(c) Tom
(d) Smollett

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sent a letter to Livesey to let him know the ship and crew were obtained, according to Chapter VII?

2. What does the blind man give Billy in Chapter III?

3. What does the narrator omit about the island as he begins his story?

4. Who or what is Admiral Benbow?

5. Who leads the sailors ashore in Chapter XIII?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Jim offended when Billy asks for rum in Chapter III?

3. Why is Mr. Arrow replaced on the ship?

4. How does Jim find out a ship and crew has been obtained at the beginning of Chapter VII?

5. What plan do Livesey and Trelawney make at the end of Chapter VI?

6. What surprises the men in Chapter V when they go into the inn?

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

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

9. Explain the difference between Smollett’s map and the map Jim took from Billy’s sea chest.

10. What happens when Jim sneaks aboard a boat going ashore in Chapter XIII?

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