Three Skeleton Key

Why does the island have a bad reputation?

• Wolves are on the island
• Three convicts died there
• It was flooded over
• It was a desert

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What did Basque mean when he said the abandoned ship was a "Flying Dutchman"?

• It was a ghost ship that sailed the seas until Judgement Day that supposely brought bad luck.
• It was a ship owned by the Russians
• A ship filled with people that are Dutch pirates
• It was a ship filled with clowns

Where did the story take place?

• A lighthouse on an island off French Guiana
• Next to Atlantic Ocean in Maine
• The island of Japan
• Off the coast of Oregon

What did they do to kill all the rats at the end?

• Scorch them with hot water and then the sharks ate them
• Use machine guns and bang bang bang dead rats everywhere
• Bring a raft of meat and pour gasoline on it and set the rats on fire. The ones that were left the sharks ate.
• They throw dynamite at them

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What happened to the three men?

• Leo Gallo went to the mental asylum, Ichabou died of infections, and the narrator recovered and went back to work at the island.
• Leo Gallo went back to France because he wanted to be a pizza man, Ichabou died of rat fever, and the narrator worked as a farmer.
• Leo Gallo went to the mental asylum in France, Ichabou died in a horse accident, and the narrator recovered and worked as a teacher
• they all died

Why does the narrator take the job at Three Skeleton Key? 

• He loved working around water.
• It was a great job to be with crowds
• The pay was high and he could reach his goal of savings before marriage.
• He was trying to get away from trouble.

Why is it unusual for the lighthouse keepers to see a ship in their water? 

• This is island was in the Arctic ocean.
• The light was a warning of treacherous reefs, barely hidden under the surface and running out to sea.
• The area was  very mountainous so the lighthouse was hard to see.
• The light never worked so people avoided this area completely.

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Which of the following does NOT describe the rats as the worst possible sort?

• small friendly and loved to climb all over you for fun
• large, strong, and intelligent, clannish and seawise
• fierce, bold animals,
• able to put the best mariners to shame with knowledge of the sea

What happens when the ship crashes on the rocks?

• The lighthouse shook and the windows fell out.
• The rocks broke apart in the water and made a clearer path for ships.
• The bottom cracked open, the water rushed in and it sank.  The rats did not drown, they came ashore. 
• The rats all drown

Why do the officers and crew of the first patrol boat look at the lighthouse with a horrified expression?

• They couldn't believe they would not light the lighthouse.
• The men were eaten alive on the outside of the lighthouse.
• They could see the men waving frantically.
• hey saw the light completely covered by a seething mass of rats.  They thought they had been eaten alive.