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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 a pirate hand to Silver at the beginning of Chapter XXIX?
(a) A captain's hat
(b) A pistol
(c) A black spot
(d) The treasure map

2. Where does Jim find himself at the beginning of Chapter XXIV?
(a) The northern corner of the island
(b) The western edge of the island
(c) The northeastern end of the island
(d) The southwest end of the island

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

4. Who goes walking in the trees in Chapter XXII?
(a) Jim
(b) Smollett
(c) Ben
(d) Livesey

5. Who asks to speak to Jim alone in Chapter XXX?
(a) Silver
(b) Trelawney
(c) Livesey
(d) Smollett

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes ashore with Hunter in Chapter XVI?

2. What book of the Bible does Jim read from at the end of Chapter XXIX?

3. What time of day does Jim take the boat at the end of Chapter XXII?

4. How do the men get ashore at the end of Chapter XVII?

5. What causes the men’s boat to founder in Chapter XVII?

Short Essay Questions

1. 1Who does Jim find on the deck of the Hispaniola in Chapter XXV?

2. Why does Jim take the coracle to the Hispaniola in Chapter XXIII?

3. What happens when Jim relaxes his guard in Chapter XXVI?

4. How does Silver announce himself to Smollett in Chapter XX?

5. Why do Livesey and Hunter go ashore in Chapter XVI?

6. Who wants to throw the dead pirate overboard in Chapter XXVI?

7. Why is Ben sure the honest sailors are in the stockade in Chapter XIX?

8. Why is it useless for Jim to paddle to shore at the beginning of Chapter XXIV?

9. What does Silver say Jim reminds him of in Chapter XXVIII?

10. Why does Silver allow Livesey and Jim to speak privately in Chapter XXX?

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