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WorksheetsWordly Wise Book 8 #6
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Everyone on the open boat knew who was in charge. Captain Bligh allowed no __________ among the eighteen crew members.
a)
calamity
b)
dissension
c)
interrogation
d)
anarchy
2.
For days on end, the men ere soaked by tropical rainstorms. At other times, they __________ in the heat under the blazing sun.
a)
shackled
b)
elapsed
c)
sweltered
d)
assimilated
3.
Captain Bligh reached Timor after forty-one days at sea. He reported the _________ that had befallen his ship to the Dutch governor.
a)
calamity
b)
bizarre
c)
interrogation
d)
meticulous
4.
Captain Bligh was given a hero's welcome when he arrived in London. He was ____________ everywhere for his great feat of seamanship.
a)
shackled
b)
arraigned
c)
assimilated
d)
lionized
5.
Captain Bligh had to explain how he came to lose his ship. A _____________ inquiry was held, which found that Bligh was not responsible.
a)
meticulous
b)
imminent
c)
bizarre
d)
sweltered
6.
Two years passed, and the mutineers lived life undisturbed. They had married Tahitian women and were thoroughly ____________ into island life.
a)
arraigned
b)
assimilated
c)
shackled
d)
apprehended
7.
That blissful life ended with the arrival of the Pandora. The mutineers were quickly __________ and taken aboard.
a)
arraigned
b)
assimilated
c)
apprehended
d)
sweltered
8.
The captain of the Pandora hoped his ____________ of the prisoners would give him a clue as to the whereabouts of Fletcher Christian.
a)
interrogation
b)
dissension
c)
conspiracy
d)
lionization
9.
'The prisoners aboard the Pandora had a long sea voyage ahead of them. They would be ____________ before a navy court as soon as they reached England.
a)
lionized
b)
apprehended
c)
assimilated
d)
arraigned
10.
The Pandora began to sink when it ran into a storm. Escape was difficult for the prisoners as they were ______________.
a)
interrogated
b)
shackled
c)
sweltered
d)
elapsed
11.
Four prisoners drowned when the Pandora sank. Even when drowning seemed ____________, the captain refused to release them.
a)
imminent
b)
bizarre
c)
meticulous
d)
elapsed
12.
The six prisoners who survived were put on trial. It was proved that three of the men had taken part in the _______________, and they were hanged.
a)
anarchy
b)
interrogation
c)
conspiracy
d)
shackled
13.
The American ship Topaz landed at Pitcairn in 1808. Almost twenty years had ___________ since the Bounty had dropped anchor there.
a)
elapsed
b)
assimilated
c)
arraigned
d)
sweltered
14.
Pitcairn Island was believed to be uninhabited. But in 1808 the outside world learned of the ____________ events that had taken place there.
a)
anarchy
b)
imminent
c)
meticulous
d)
bizarre
15.
Fighting had broken out between the mutineers and the Tahitians who had accompanied them. Soon the island was plunged into _____________.
a)
calamity
b)
anarchy
c)
conspiracy
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