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SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS -
PART I
1. Identify Dr. Livesey, Admiral Benbow, Bill Bones, Black Dog, Jim, and Pew.
2. Why did Captain Bill Bones come to the Admiral Benbow?
3. What duty did Jim do for the captain?
4. Was the captain's presence at the inn good or bad for business? Why?
5. Who was the only man who stood up to Captain Bill Bones?
6. Why didn't Captain Bill Bones kill Black Dog?
7. What diagnosis did the doctor make after examining Captain Bones, and what remedy did he recommend?
8. For what reason did Pew come to see Captain Bill Bones?
9. Why did Jim and Mrs. Hawkins go to the neighboring hamlet after Captain Bones' death?
10. How did Jim and Mrs. Hawkins discover the map?
11. For what reason did Jim ride with Dogger to see Dr. Livesey?
12. After he had seen the contents of the oilcloth, what plans did the squire make?
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 go back to the time when my father kept the "Admiral Benbow" inn, and the
brown old seaman, with the sabre cut, first took up his lodging under our roof.
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2. . . . a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his
soiled blue coat; . . .
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3. . . . and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards: "Fifteen men
on the dead man's chest--Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" in the high, old tottering voice that
seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars.
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4. This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur lingering on the taste, and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard.
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5. How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you.
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6. "Were you addressing me, sir?" says the doctor; and when the ruffian had told him, with another oath, that this was so, "I have only one thing to say to you, sir," replies the doctor, "that if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!"
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7. He was a pale, tallowy creature, wanting two fingers of the left hand; and, though he wore a cutlass, he did not look much like a fighter.
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8. The captain had been struck dead by thundering apoplexy.
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9. Overcoming a strong repugnance, I tore open his shirt at the neck, and there, sure enough, hanging to a bit of tarry string, which I cut with his own gully, we found the key.
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10. "I'll have my dues, and not a farthing over.
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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.
___ 1. sabre A. physical form or bearing; a person of distinction
___ 2. tarry B. like tar; to linger or delay
___ 3. capstan C. one competent to act as a critical judge of an art or in a matter of taste.
___ 4. connoisseur D. a cavalry sword with a somewhat curved blade for cutting and thrusting
___ 5. personage E. a small British bronze coin worth one fourth of a penny;
___ 6. ruffian F. aversion; loathing
___ 7. tallowy G. a vertical-cleated drum or cylinder revolving on a spindle used for
raising weights by traction upon a rope or cable passing around the drum
___ 8. apoplexy H. a cruel, brutal person
___ 9. repugnance
melting
___ 10. farthing J. a stroke caused by a rupture or obstruction of an artery of the brain