"Three Skeleton Key"

The setting of the story was

• a ship
• a lighthouse
• an asylum

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CCSS.RL.4.3

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CCSS.RL.6.3

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CCSS.RL.8.3

Three Skeleton Key got its names from a story about

• rats who could pick locks
• three dead lighthouse keepers
• three dead escaped convicts

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

What was swarming around the waters of the island?

• sharks
• skeletons
• fireboats

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

The lighthouse keepers stayed on the island for _____ weeks at a time.

• 22
• 4 1/2
• 18

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is are hordes?

• poles that hold up sails on a boat
• large, moving crowds

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is the main conflict of the story?

• the men were imprisoned by rats
• the sharks circled the lighthouse
• the rats smelled bad

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

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The men decide their only hope of survival is

• swim for it
• not to light the light
• fight the rats with knives

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Who died of a rat bite?

• Le Gleo
• Itchoua
• the narrator

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What did the narrator do at the end?

• return to the lighthouse
• moved to Holland
• went insane

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Who was locked in an insane asylum?

• the narrator
• Le Gleo
• Itchoua

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6