“What's Buried on Oak Island?” Quiz

Name:

1. What first led people to believe there was treasure buried on Oak Island?

• a forest of towering oak trees
• a stone with strange writing on it
• an old Spanish coin
• a round pit in the ground

2. Which sentence from the text supports the correct answer to question 1?

• “No one lived on this small speck of land . . .”
• “. . . like someone had dug a giant hole and filled it back up.”
• “. . . pirates had prowled the waters off eastern Canada.”
• “One language expert . . . said the writing meant, ‘Forty feet below, 2 million pounds are buried.’ ”

3. Who became interested in the Money Pit by reading about it? Choose TWO.

• Daniel McGinnis
• Rick Lagina
• Marty Lagina
• Dan Blankenship

4. Which section is MOSTLY about the first clue Rick and Marty Lagina found?

• “The Mystery”
• “Unlocking Secrets”
• “Stolen Riches”
• “‘The Real Evidence’”

5. What does the word legend mean in the sentence “According to legend, seven people must die in the hunt for the treasure before it is found”?

• an old story
• facts proven to be true
• clues that have been found
• narration on a television show

6. You can infer that the author believes __________. Choose TWO.

• treasure hunting wastes time
• all mysteries can be solved
• treasure means different things to different people
• clues can be understood in many different ways