Treasure Island

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SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS - Treasure Island

PART IV

1. Who narrates chapters 16 and 17? Why?

2. Why did Trelawney shoot one of the men who was with Hands?

3. Who was the first of the doctor's men to die?

4. What message was Jim to deliver to the squire or the doctor for Ben Gunn?

5. What did Jim's group decide would be their "best hope" for survival?

6. What truce offer did Long John Silver make to Captain Smollett, and what was Smollett's response?

7. What was the outcome of the pirates' attack on the stockade?

Vocabulary - Treasure Island Part IV

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. Well, on the knoll, and enclosing the spring, they had clapped a stout log-house, fit to hold two score people on a pinch, and loop-holed for musketry on every side.

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2. Hunter brought the boat round under the sternport, and Joyce and I set to work loading her with powder tins, muskets, bags of biscuits, kegs of pork, a cask of cognac, and my invaluable medicine chest.

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3. "If I durst," said the captain, "I'd stop and pick off another man."

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4. Poor old fellow, he had not uttered one word of surprise, complaint, fear, or even acquiescence, from the very beginning of our troubles till now when we had laid him down in the log-house to die.

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5. "Dr. Livesey," he said, "in how many weeks do you and squire expect the consort?"

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6. We had no ricochet to fear; and though one popped in through the roof of the log-house and out again through the floor, we soon got used to that sort of horse-play, and minded it no more than cricket.

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7. And, at that, up I jumped, and, rubbing my eyes, ran to a loophole in the wall.

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8. As for me, I began to have an inkling.

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9. "Hang them!" said the captain. "This is as dull as the doldrums, Gray, whistle for a wind."

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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.

___ 30. musketry                     A. a ship keeping company with another           

___ 31. cognac                        B. act of complying passively without implying agreement

___ 32. durst                           C. muskets; firearms carried by infantry

___ 33. acquiescence               D. part of the ocean near the equator abounding in calms, squalls and

                                                     baffling winds

___ 34. consort                        E. dared; not afraid; to venture

___ 35. ricochet                       F. a hint; a slight knowledge or vague notion

___ 36. loophole                      G. a superior French brandy from wine near Cognac; loosely, any French

                                                     brandy

___ 37. inkling                         H. to skip with a glancing rebound or series of rebounds

___ 38. doldrums                     I. a small opening through which small arms may be discharged