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SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS -
PART VI
1. How did Silver get possession of the blockhouse?
2. What was Jim's deal with Silver?
3. Why did the council give Silver the black spot?
4. Why did the council decide to invalidate the black spot and keep Silver as captain?
5. What scared the treasure-hunting pirates?
6. What surprise did Silver and the pirates find at the treasure site?
7. Who saved Silver and Jim?
8. Who got the treasure?
9. What happened to Silver?
10. What happened to the others?
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. But one thing I'll say, and no more; if you spare me, bygones are bygones, and when you fellows are in court for piracy, I'll save you all I can.
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2. He drew some cognac from the cask into a tin cannikin.
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3. . . . yet my heart was sore for him, wicked as he was, to think on the dark perils that environed, and the shameful gibbet that awaited him.
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4. Although I was glad to hear the sound, yet my gladness was not without admixture.
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5. . . . .Silver, if we both get alive out of this wolf-trap, I'll do my best to save you, short of perjury."
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6. The cache had been found and rifled; the seven hundred thousand pounds were gone!
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7. Merry tumbled head foremost into the excavation; the man with the bandage spun round like a teetotum, and fell all his length upon his side, where he lay dead, but still twitching; and the other three turned and ran for it with all their might.
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8. And there was Silver, sitting back almost out of the firelight, but eating heartily, prompt to spring forward when anything was wanted, even joining quietly in our laughter--the same bland, polite, obsequious seaman of the voyage out.
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9. Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts, or start upright in bed, with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: "Pieces of eight! pieces of eight!"
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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.
___ 49. bygones A. fawning; obedient; compliant
___ 50. cannikin B. false swearing; voluntary violation of an oath
___ 51. gibbet C. a cart rope; a trace or part of a harness
___ 52. admixture D. past; gone by
___ 53. perjury E. a child's toy somewhat like a top
___ 54. cache F. that which is added to anything by mixing
___ 55. teetotum G. a small can or drinking vessel
___ 56. obsequious H. a hole in the ground used for a hiding place for provisions, etc.
___ 57. wain-ropes
and allowed to remain there as a warning