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SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS -
PART V
1. What was Jim's "second folly"?
2. How did Jim get out to the ship?
3. On the morning after Jim set the
4. What deal did Israel Hands make with Jim?
5. Why did Israel Hands send Jim to get him some wine?
6. How did Israel Hands die?
7. Who did Jim find upon his return to the blockhouse?
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. These biscuits, should anything befall me, would keep me, at least, from starving till far on in the next day.
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2. This was my second folly, far worse than the first, as I left but two sound men to guard the house; but like the first, it was a help towards saving all of us.
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3. Soon after the jolly-boat shoved off and pulled for shore, and the man with the red cap and his comrade went below by the cabin companion.
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4. I had not then seen a coracle, such as the ancient Britons made, but I have seen one since, and I can give you no fairer idea of Ben Gunn's boat than by saying it was like the first and the worst coracle ever made by man.
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5. At last the breeze came; the schooner sidled and drew nearer in the dark; I felt the hawser slacken once more, and with a good tough effort cut the last fibers through.
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6. So I must have lain for hours, continually beaten to and fro upon the billows, and now and again wetted with flying sprays, and never ceasing to expect death at the next plunge.
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7. Among the fallen rocks the breakers spouted and bellowed; loud reverberations, heavy sprays flying and falling, succeeded one another from second to second; and I saw myself, if I ventured nearer, dashed to death upon the rough shore, or spending my strength in vain to scale the beetling crags.
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8. . . . Israel Hands propped against the bulwarks his chin on his chest, his hands lying open before him on the deck, his face as white, under its tan, as a tallow candle.
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9. The excitement of these last maneuvers had somewhat interfered with the watch I had kept
hitherto, sharply enough, upon the coxswain.
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10. I stole round by the eastern end, keeping close in shadow, and at a convenient place, where the darkness was thickest, crossed the palisade.
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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.
___ 39. befall A. until now
___ 40. folly B. a boat made by covering a wicker frame with hide or cloth
___ 41. comrade C. a fence of pales or stakes for defense; a line of bold cliffs
___ 42. coracle D. to happen to
___ 43. sidled E. echoes of sound
___ 44. billows F. a mate; companion; associate
___ 45. reverberations G. a foolish act or idea
___ 46. bulwarks H. great waves or surges of water
___ 47. hitherto
___ 48. palisade J. the side of a ship above the upper deck; any strong safeguard