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2. What is the name of the ship that carried the crew to Treasure Island?
The Hispaniola
3. What was the name of Captain Flints ship?
The Walrus
4. Who was the actor who played Long John Silver in the quintessential 1950 Treasure Island movie?
Robert Newton
5. In that same 1950 movie version of Treasure Island, Pew was played by John Laurie - in what classic British sitcom did
Laurie star as a grumpy old Scotsman?
Dads Army
6. Who is the captain of the Treasure Island voyage?
Smollett
7. What is not found in Billy Bones' sea chest?
A bottle of rum
8. Jim sees "huge slimy monsters" on the beach before cutting loose the Hispaniola. What were those monsters?
Sea lions
9. How much is Jim paid each month by Billy Bones for keeping watch for a one-legged man?
Fourpenny
10. How did Jim's father die?
Illness
11. What is the name of the inn where Jim Hawkins lives?
Admiral Benbow
12. Where is Jim hiding when he overhears the mutiny plot?
In an apple barrel
13. How does Blind Pew die?
Trampled
14. Who is the first to die in the Squires party?
Thomas Redruth
15. In what month does Black Dog first make his appearance?
January
16. In which part of his body does OBrien stab Israel Hands?
The thigh
17. Where did the gold that was buried on Treasure Island initially come from?
Porto Bello
18. What is the name of Silvers parrot?
Captain Flint
19. How many men are on the deadmans chest?
15
20. What are the final words of Treasure Island?
Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!
21. Who is the narrator of treasure island?
Dick Johnson
an outsider
Dr. Livesey
on Treasure Island
Billy Bones
Israel Hands
Captain Flint
Black Dog
Job Anderson
a blind man
5. How much is Jim paid each moth to watch out for a one-legged man?
sixpence
fourpenny
thruppence
a shilling
December
January
February
March
unknown
murder
suicide
illness
on the road
in the inn
9. What is not found in Billy Boness sea chest out of a suit of fine clothes, an old Spanish
watch, a bottle of rum, and seashells?
a bottle of rum
seashells
his mother
Squire Trelawney
his father
Dr. Livesey
Captain Smollett
Portsmouth
Dover
Brighton
Bristol
12. Who is the last crew member on the Hispaniola to learn about the treasure?
Squire Trelawney
Dick Johnson
Jim
Captain Smollett
13. What phrase does Long John's bird repeat over and over?
"pieces of six"
"pieces of eight"
"pieces of four"
14. On the journey to Treasure Island, who falls overboard on the ship?
Jim
Squire Trelawney
Dr. Livesey
Long John
Mr. Arrow
15. Where did Jim hide when he overheard Long John Silver planning his mutiny?
in a rum barrel
in an apple barrel
under a bed
in a cupboard
16. Who does Jim tell to gather the others, when he overhears the planned mutiny?
George Merry
Redruth
Captain Smollett
Squire Trelawney
Dr. Livesey
buccaneers
gentlemen of fortune
wealthy businessmen
Silver's
Bones's
Allardyce's
Gunn's
Flint's
Smollett's
he survived a shipwreck
on the ship
in the stockade
in the woods
a pickaxe
a musket
a spade
Jim
Allardyce
Ben Gunn
Alan
23. When the treasure was initially discovered, where was it taken immediately after its
excavation?
to the beach
to the ship
to the stockade
to a cave
to the river
Squire Trelawney
George Merry
Dr. Livesey
Ben Gunn
Captain Smollett
Long John
25. What does Jim hunt for after leaving Captain Smollett in the stockade?
a boat
treasure
rum
medicine
in some bushes
in a cave
in a tree
28. How does Jim move the ship away from the pirate camp?
he sails it at night
he cuts it adrift
29. Whom does Jim fight on the ship when he sneaks on board?
George Merry
Tom Redruth
Israel Hands
Long John Silver
31. Why does Long John Silver visit Captain Smollett in the stockade?
to extort money
to take a hostage
to make a truce
to fetch medicine
33. When the pirates hand Silver a black spot toward the end of the novel, what is its
message?
depossed
depposed
diposed
depozed
35. Who does Silver take hostage?
Captain Smollett
Dr. Livesey
Ben Gunn
Jim
buccaneers
gentlemen of fortune
wealthy businessmen
37. Why does Dr. Livesey visit the pirates at the stockade?
he wants to negotiate
39. Allardyce, one of Flint's unfortunate seamen, took what from Morgan ashore with
him before he died?
a wallet
a cutlass
a pistol
a knife
a black spot
a flag
an X
Tom Morgans
Captain Flints
George Merrys
Allardyces
42. Jim sees "huge slimy monsters" on the beach before cutting loose the Hispaniola.
What were those monsters?
seals
sea lions
sea otters
walruses
43. Near the end of the story, three remaining mutineers were marooned on the island
to the "huge glee" of whom?
Jim Hawkins
Captain Smollett
Ben Gunn
he is hanged
he returns to England
Jim
Squire Trelawney
Smollett
46. Why did Jim keep nothing back but the bearings of the island in his journal?
because he was afraid the spirit of Flint would come and haunt him
Squire Trelawney gets most of it but gives a little to the crew who had helped him
it is stolen
A) He was a banker.
B) He was a lawyer.
C) He was an innkeeper.
D) He was a farmer.
2. Why did Captain Billy Bones give Jim money each month when they were at the Admiral Benbow Inn?
7. How does Jim move the ship out of sight of the pirate camp on shore?
A) He frightens them by telling them their rum supply has run out.
B) He frightens them by putting spiders in their beds.
C) He frightens them by imitating the dead Flint's voice.
D) He tells them that the treasure map is a hoax.
10. Who interrupts Jim's narration and is the storyteller for a while?
A) Dr. Livesey
B) Long John Silver
C) Squire Trelawney
D) Captain Smollett
11. When Jim sneaks on the Hispaniola, what is the result of his fight with Israel Hands?
A) Jim is pinned to the mast with a knife, and Israel Hands is killed.
B) Jim is shot in the leg and Israel Hands ties him up.
C) Isreal Hands falls into the water, swims back to the ship, and captures Jim.
D) Jim escapes Israel Hands and sails his coracle back to the island.
12. When the treasure was initially discovered on the island, where was it taken immediately after its
excavation?
A) to a cave
B) to the river
C) to the ship
D) to the stockade
13. Why does Long John Silver visit Captain Smollett in the stockade?
14. When the pirates hand Silver a black spot toward the end of the novel, what is its message?
16. What happens to Long John Silver at the end of the novel?
A) He is tried for piracy, but his kindness to Jim lessens his sentence to imprisonment.
B) He is marooned on the island.
C) He steals some of the treasure and sneaks away.
D) He is hanged for piracy.
17. Whose failure to keep a secret, and foolishness in letting a complete stranger choose the crew puts the
entire treasure quest at risk?
A) Squire Trelawney
B) Captain Flint, the parrot
C) Captain Smollett
D) Jim Hawkins
18. Why did the pirates tip Billy Bones the black spot?
A) They were looking for Flint's map -- which was in his treasure chest.
B) They were angry because he marooned the other pirates on the island.
C) They were getting revenge because he was the one who blinded Pew.
D) They wante to kidnap Jim and knew that Billy Bones protected him.
19. What does the return crew of the Hispaniola do to the remaining three mutineers?
A) They're sentenced to labor work for two years in exchange for their freedom.
B) They go through a trial and are hanged.
C) They shoot them.
D) They're marooned.
20. How does Ben Gunn use his share of the fortune?
A) livid
B) ebb
C) diabolical
D) lee
22. What word means "a windlass that winds up ropes or cables"?
A) dory
B) rigging
C) capstan
D) schooner
23. What word means "one of a seafaring group who preys upon ships and settlements"?
A) spars
B) buccaneer
C) swabs
D) forecastle
A) chanty
B) reiterated
C) keel
D) colors
A) rigging
B) skulking
C) trundling
D) fawning
A) bow
B) lee
C) port
D) spar
A) trundle
B) wrest
C) rebuff
D) miscreant
A) keel
B) lee
C) spar
D) port
A) rebuff
B) skulk
C) keel-hawl
D) ebb
30. What word means "of or relating to a characteristic of the devil -- wicked"?
A) livid
B) incivility
C) repugnant
D) diabolical
Answer Key
1.C 2.C 3.C 4.B 5.D 6.B 7.B 8.B 9.C 10.A 11.A 12.A 13.C 14.B 15.A 16.C 17.A 18
.A 19.D 20.A 21.A 22.C 23.B 24.A 25.B 26.C 27.B 28.A 29.D 30.D