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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Jim see leave the tavern when he meets up with the ship’s cook?
(a) Black Dog
(b) Billy Bones
(c) Long John Silver
(d) Pew

2. Who does Trelawney compare Flint to in Chapter VI?
(a) Sparrow
(b) Bluebeard
(c) Blackbeard
(d) Ahab

3. Who is pleased about the ship’s new cook, according to the end of Chapter VIII?
(a) The cook himself
(b) The ship's captain
(c) Trelawney
(d) Livesey

4. How is the old sailor recognizable, according to the tall pale man in Chapter II?
(a) A hook in place of one hand
(b) A missing leg
(c) A missing ear
(d) A scar on one cheek

5. Who is the captain Billy once sailed under, according to Chapter III?
(a) Pike
(b) Silver
(c) Ahab
(d) Flint

6. What does the narrator omit about the island as he begins his story?
(a) How he found out about the treasure
(b) Its true name
(c) Its exact location
(d) The exact amount of the treasure buried there

7. Who kills Tom in Chapter XIV?
(a) Alan
(b) Jim
(c) Silver
(d) One of the mutinous sailors

8. What role does the sailor who helped Trelawney have on the crew?
(a) Navigator
(b) Swabbie
(c) Cook
(d) Cabin boy

9. What is missing from Smollett’s map of the island?
(a) A name of the island
(b) Nothing; it is an exact copy
(c) The “X” marking the treasure’s location
(d) Identifying landmarks

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

11. Who does Jim hear talking with crew members about old adventures with Captain Flint?
(a) Silver
(b) Mr. Arrow
(c) Smollett
(d) Livesey

12. Who or what is Admiral Benbow?
(a) The captain of the ship that takes the narrator to the island
(b) A restaurant owned by Squire Trelawney
(c) An inn owned by Jim’s father
(d) The pirate who gives Jim the treasure map

13. Who is Cap’n Flint?
(a) The nickname of the ship
(b) Mr. Arrow's cat
(c) The ship's captain
(d) Silver's parrot

14. What is the name of the ship obtained for the journey to Treasure Island?
(a) The Hispaniola
(b) The Pequod
(c) The Endeavour
(d) The Galactica

15. What is the name of the tall pale man in Chapter II?
(a) Billy Bones
(b) Ishmael
(c) Cookie
(d) Black Dog

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stows away to go ashore with the sailors in Chapter XIII?

2. What does Jim take from Billy’s sea chest?

3. Who leads the sailors ashore in Chapter XIII?

4. What does Jim do when he sees something in the woods at the beginning of Chapter XV?

5. Who replaces the sailor who disappears mysteriously in Chapter X?

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