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Analysis of Major Characters

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Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

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1. What does Jim's father do for a living?

(A) He is a farmer

(B) He is a banker

(C) He is an innkeeper

(D) He is a lawyer

2. Why does Billy give Jim money each month?

(A) To shine his boots

(B) To bring him rum

(C) To be on the lookout for Billy's enemy

(D) To guard his map

3. Where is Billy when he receives the black spot?

(A) On the road

(B) In the inn

(C) On the ship

(D) At the squire's house

4. In what century is Treasure Island set?

(A) Seventeenth

(B) Eighteenth

(C) Nineteenth

(D) Twentieth

5. What is Pew's most noticeable physical feature?

(A) His blindness

(B) His lameness

(C) His leprosy

(D) His deafness

6. To whom does Jim first show the map?

(A) Pew

(B) His father

(C) Captain Smollett

(D) Dr. Livesey

7. What is Long John Silver's original job on the ship?

(A) Captain

(B) Cook

(C) First mate

(D) Doctor

8. Where is Jim when he overhears Silver's plans for mutiny?

(A) In the wine cellar

(B) In an apple barrel

(C) In the washroom

(D) In the stockade

9. Where does Jim encounter Ben Gunn?

(A) On the ship

(B) In the stockade

(C) At the pirates' camp

(D) In the woods

10. What does Jim hunt for after leaving Captain Smollett in the stockade?

(A) Treasure

(B) Rum

(C) Medicine

(D) A boat

11. How does Jim move the ship away from the pirate camp?

(A) He cuts it adrift

(B) He sails it at night

(C) He bribes the crew

(D) He pulls it with his boat

12. What is the name of Long John Silver's parrot?

(A) Cap'n Flint

(B) Cap'n Hook

(C) Cap'n Billy

(D) Cap'n Morgan

13. Who is the first to discover Flint's treasure on the island?

(A) Silver

(B) Jim

(C) Ben Gunn

(D) Livesey

14. How does Ben Gunn frighten the pirates?

(A) By putting spiders in their beds

(B) By imitating the dead Flint's voice

(C) By telling them their rum supply has run out

(D) By telling them the treasure map is a hoax

15. Who interrupts Jim's narration to tell the story for a while?

(A) Smollett

(B) Silver

(C) Trelawney

(D) Livesey

16. Whom does Jim fight on the ship when he sneaks on board?

(A) Israel Hands

(B) Tom Redruth

(C) Long John Silver

(D) Arrow

17. When the treasure was initially discovered, where was it taken immediately after its excavation?

(A) To the ship

(B) To the stockade

(C) To a cave

(D) To the river

18. Why does Silver visit Smollett in the stockade?

(A) To make a truce

(B) To extort money

(C) To take a hostage

(D) To fetch medicine

19. When the pirates hand Silver a black spot toward the end of the novel, what is its message?

(A) That Silver has one day to find the treasure

(B) That Silver has been deposed

(C) That Silver will be executed

(D) That Silver will be marooned

20. Which of the following characters does Silver take hostage?

(A) Ben

(B) Smollett

(C) Livesey

(D) Jim

21. How does Billy Bones die?

(A) Silver kills him

(B) From a stroke

(C) From gangrene

(D) He is hanged for piracy

22. What does Hispaniola signify in the novel?

(A) The name of the island

(B) The name of Silver's wife

(C) The name of the ship

(D) The name of the inn

23. What is the last clue guiding the pirates to the treasure site?

(A) A skeleton

(B) A mark on a tree

(C) An overturned chest

(D) An unfurled flag

24. What happens to Silver at the end of the novel?

(A) He is hanged

(B) He is marooned on the island

(C) He returns to England

(D) He steals some of the treasure and sneaks away

25. What flag does Smollett fly over the stockade?

(A) The White Cross

(B) The Jolly Roger

(C) The Union Jack

(D) The Green Moon

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