The Cay Ch.1-6

Which line from the book shows that it is written in first person?

• I was asleep on the second floor of our narrow, gabled green house in Willemstad, on the island of Curacao.

• One German sub was even sighted off Willemstad at dawn.

• Phillip, the enemy has finally attacked the island, and there will be no school today.

• They once stormed the island long ago.

The Cay can best be described as ---.

• historical fiction

• a drama

• biography

• realistic fiction

How does the setting in Chapter 1 emphasize

conflict in the story?

• Native schooners from Venezuela, Aruba, and

  Bonaire were coming in with bananas, oranges,

  papayas, melons, and vegetables.

• The Dutch were raiding the Spanish galleons.

• Willemstad had to defend itself against the

  storming pirates and the British.

• World War II had come to the Caribbean by

  way of Germans who wanted the oil from the

  refineries.

Read the following sentence from Chapter 1.

Like silent, hungry sharks that swim in the

darkness, the German submarines arrived in the

middle of the night.

The author uses the simile in this sentence to

______________.

• make the reader know that sharks swim in the

  sea around Willemstad

• emphasize how frightening the arrival of

  German submarines was to the people of

  Willemstad

• describe to the reader what the German

  submarines looked like

• make the German submarines seem real

Phillip and Henrik _________.

• were natives of Curacao

• were both from America

• were both from the Netherlands

• came to Curacao from different countries;

  Phillip from America and Henrik from the

  Netherlands

Phillip's father came to Curacao to

___________.

• study the trees, fish, and birds

• be a tour guide taking tourist on hikes around

  Krup Bay or Seroe Male

• work on a program to increase production of

  aviation gas

• work for the fire department on the island

The people of Curacao planned __________.

• to drop bombs on the German submarines

• to ride out to the submarines in boats to attack

  the Germans

• to do nothing, because they didn't have any

  weapons

• to ask the Amsterdam government to help

Why are the islands of Aruba and Curacao

important and in danger of German attack?

• They have oil and an oil refinery. The Germans

  want the oil and fuel.

• The Germans need a base for supplies in the

  Caribbean. Aruba and Curacao are good sources

  of food and water.

• Aruba and Curacao have an American

  ammunitions supply depot on the islands.

• The Germans feel the large population of

  Caribbean soldiers will attack their native

  homeland.

Which word completes the analogy?

refinery is to gasoline as dairy farm is to ---

• cow

• milk

• barn

• farmer

If a student wants to find the location of

Curacao, where should she or he look?

• atlas

• textbook

• glossary

• dictionary