Three Skeleton Key Test 9.25.20

Comprehension: Choose the letter of the BEST answer to the following question.

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

• He wants to set aside some money before he gets married.

• He wants to protect the lighthouse.

• He wants to watch the ships sail in the nightime.

• He is sent there to find three escaped convicts.

Comprehension: Choose the letter of the BEST answer to the following question.

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

• Sailors are afraid of the Flying Dutchman.

• Sailors know that there are many rats on the island.

• The waters are treacherous.

• The island is off-limits to sailors.

How do the rats FIRST get inside the lighthouse?

• They dig a tunnel under the lighthouse.

• They eat a hole through the door.

• The metal sheeting that was sealing the window gives way.

• Crazed by the sight of the rats, LeGleo opens the door.

When some rats return defeated from the attack on the patrol boat, the narrator says that the other rats greeted them with "shrill cries... with what sounded like a derisive note." The author is showing that the rats-

• can laugh

• have humanlike qualities

• do not like each other

• have begun to attack each other

What becomes of the three lighthouse keepers?

• One man returns to the key; two refuse to go back to the lighthouse.

• Two men return to Three Skeleton Key; the third man dies.

• One man returns to the key; one goes insane; one dies.

• Two men return to the island; the third man is too frightened to return.

Comprehension: Choose the letter of the BEST definition of the vocabulary word below:

Edible

• deceptively or unreliably

• move or manipulate skillfully

• densely packed crowds that move as groups

• moving back

• fit to be eaten

Comprehension: Choose the letter of the BEST definition of the vocabulary word below:

Treacherously

• deceptively or unreliably

• move or manipulate skillfully

• densely packed crowds that move as groups

• moving back

• fit to be eaten

Comprehension: Choose the letter of the BEST definition of the vocabulary word below:

Maneuver

• deceptively or unreliably

• move or manipulate skillfully

• densely packed crowds that move as groups

• moving back

• fit to be eaten

Comprehension: Choose the letter of the BEST definition of the vocabulary word below:

Hordes

• deceptively or unreliably

• love or manipulate skillfully

• densely packed crowds that move as groups

• moving back

• fit to be eaten

Comprehension: Choose the letter of the BEST definition of the vocabulary word below:

Receding

• deceptively or unreliably

• move or manipulate skillfully

• densely packed crowds that move as groups

• moving back

• fit to be eaten