Treasure Island Quiz

In the text, Jim shows that he is adventurous. How does this quality influence later events in the story?

• He is worried about leaving his mother alone at the inn.

• He reads the letter that is addressed to Dr. Livesey.

• He is eager to sail to the treasure island even though he does not like his traveling partner.

• He slept for a long time on the way to the docks.

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How does the time period influence events in paragraph 9?

• Jim and Tom were able to quickly travel to the docks by stagecoach.

• It took Jim and Tom a long time to travel by stagecoach to the docks.

• There was no transportation, so Jim and Tom had to walk to the docks.

• Traveling to the docks was difficult because transportation was hard to find.

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What conflict arises from Jim’s love for his family?

• Jim is nervous to get on a ship even though he wants to follow his father’s map.

• Jim is torn between leaving his mother and going on his adventure.

• Jim does not want the boy at the inn to take his place.

• Jim does not want his mother to know that he is following the map to the island.

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How does the time period of the selection influence events in paragraphs 3 and 4?

• Squire Trelawney stays in an inn by the sea.

• Squire Trelawney requests that an adult travel with Jim to Bristol.

• Squire Trelawney contacts Dr. Livesey by letter.

• Squire Trelawney allows Jim to read his important message.

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Which of these examples foreshadow Tom’s helpfulness in finding the treasure? Select TWO correct answers.

• The group decides to sail to the island find it.

  (Paragraph 1)

• We found, or rather I found—for the gamekeeper was a poor hand at reading anything but print—the following important news: (paragraph 3)

• Mr. Trelawney had taken up his residence at an inn far down the docks to superintend the work upon the schooner. (paragraph 12)

• The mail picked us up about dusk at the Royal George on the heath. (Paragraph 9)

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  ... if ever I despised a man, it was old Tom Redruth, who could do nothing but grumble and lament. (paragraph 5)

  
  

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How does the setting in paragraph 12 influence the plot?

• It makes Jim feel afraid of being on the ocean.

• It makes Jim more confident that he is a skilled sailor.

• It makes Jim miss his mother and father.

• It makes Jim excited about his ship voyage.

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Based on the text, the reader can infer that Jim thinks Tom Redruth is grouchy. How does Tom’s quality of being grouchy affect Jim?

• Tom refuses to travel with Jim.

• Jim refuses to travel with Tom.

• Jim dreads having to travel with Tom.

• Tom dreads having to travel with Jim.

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Which evidence from the text foreshadows that Jim Hawkins and Tom Redruth may get into an argument later in the story?

• "I was half beside myself with glee; and if ever I despised a man, it was old Tom Redruth, who could do nothing but grumble and lament." (paragraph 5)

• "I was wedged in between Redruth and a stout old gentleman." (paragraph 9)

• "The night passed, and the next day, after dinner, Redruth and I were afoot again and on the road." (paragraph 8)

• "... and I lived on at the hall under the charge of old Redruth, the gamekeeper, almost a prisoner, but full of sea-dreams and the most charming anticipations of strange islands and adventures." (paragraph 2)

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What can you infer about Jim’s attitude toward the sailors he sees?

• He is unimpressed.

• He is disgusted.

• He is fascinated.

• He is sympathetic.

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Which evidence from the text supports the correct answer to Part A?

• "I saw, besides, many old sailors, with rings in their ears, and whiskers curled in ringlets, and tarry pigtails, and their swaggering, clumsy sea-walk; and if I had seen as many kings or archbishops I could not have been more delighted." (paragraph 12)

• "In one, sailors were singing at their work, in another there were men aloft, high over my head, hanging to threads that seemed no thicker than a spider’s." (paragraph 12)

• "Thither we had now to walk, and our way, to my great delight, lay along the quays and beside the great multitude of ships of all sizes and rigs and nations." (paragraph 12)

• "It was longer than the squire imagined ere we were ready for the sea, and none of our first plans—not even Dr. Livesey’s, of keeping me beside him—could be carried out as we intended." (paragraph 2)

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