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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 is the name of the old sailor, as revealed in Chapter II?
(a) Billy Bones
(b) Bluebeard
(c) Jack Sparrow
(d) Cookie

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

3. What causes the men to flee in Chapter V?
(a) Jim returns to the inn
(b) Pew gets killed
(c) A pistol shot
(d) The authorities approach

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

5. What is hidden at the bottom of Billy’s sea chest?
(a) An intricate wooden lock box
(b) Letters to Billy
(c) Gold
(d) A spyglass

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Chapter VI take place?

2. How is the old sailor recognizable, according to the tall pale man in Chapter II?

3. Who leads the sailors ashore in Chapter XIII?

4. What does Jim see in the distance at the end of Chapter XV?

5. Who cautions the old sailor in Chapter I?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How can Smollett be described?

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

4. What does Dr. Livesey think might happen if the men go ashore in Chapter XIII?

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

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

7. How did Ben come to be on the island, according to Chapter XV?

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

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

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

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