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SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS -
PART II
1. Name the ship and the cook John Trelawney found for the trip to
2. Why didn't Jim think Long John Silver was a pirate when he first met him?
3. What were Captain Smollett's complaints to the squire?
4. Was Mr. Arrow a good officer? Why or why not?
5. What did Jim hear while he was in the apple barrel?
Vocabulary -
Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean on the lines provided.
1. And I was going to sea myself; to sea in a schooner, with a piping boatswain and pig-tailed
singing seamen; to sea, bound for an unknown island, and to seek for buried treasures!
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2. "Has Mr. Trelawney not told you of the buccaneers? He was one of them."
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3. "Now, Barbecue, tip us a stave," cried one voice.
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4. And the coxswain, Israel Hands, was a careful, wily, old, experienced seaman. . . . . . . .
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5. Double grog was going on the least excuse; there was duff on odd days, as for instance, if the squire heard it was any man's birthday; and always a barrel of apples standing broached in the waist, for anyone to help himself that had a fancy.
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6. "But," asked Dick, "when we do lay athwart, what are we to do with 'em, anyhow?"
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7. I was surprised at the coolness with which John avowed his knowledge of the island;...........
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8. "I never heard of a crew that meant to mutiny but what showed signs before, for any man that had an eye in his head to see the mischief and take steps according.
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Vocabulary -
Part II: Determining the Meaning Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.
If there are words for which you cannot figure out the definition by contextual clues and by
process of elimination, look them up in a dictionary.
___ 11. boatswain A. the steersman of a ship's boat
___ 12. buccaneers B. declared openly; acknowledged; admitted
___ 13. stave C. any intoxicating liquor
___ 14. coxwain D. a warrant officer or superior seaman on a ship in charge of rigging,
anchors, cables, etc.
___ 15. grog E. insubordination; refusal to obey, especially military or naval authority
___ 16. athwart F. pirates, especially of the 17th and 18th centuries
___ 17. avowed G. in opposition to; across the length, direction or course of
___ 18. mutiny H. a stick or cudgel; narrow strips to form the sides of a barrel; to break a
hole in; to ward off