STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS: Treasure Island Answer all the following questions on this paper. Questions DO NOT have to be answered in complete sentences. Remember: use EXACT words from the book as your answers & include DETAILS. You may use your study guide answers when you take a Reading Quiz on these chapters. Chapter 1 1. What does the “brown old seaman” look like?
2. What does the seaman ask for when he decides to stay at the inn?
3. What does he want to be called?
4. Why had the seaman decided to stay at THIS inn?
5. What job does the seaman offer to Jim?
6. What frightened people at the inn about the seaman?
7. How did the younger men feel about the seaman?
8. How does Dr. Livesey react to the seaman?
Chapter 2 9. Where does the “captain” go on one January morning?
10.Who is the new stranger to the inn looking for?
11.What is the stranger’s name and how does he know the “captain”?
12.What prevents the stranger from getting Bill’s last cutlass cut?
13.What causes Billy Bones to have a stroke?
14.How does Dr. Livesey awaken Bones from his stroke?
Chapter 3 15.What does Billy Bones tell Jim to do if the pirates come back for his sea chest?
16.What is the “black spot”? (explain its meaning)
17.What happens to Jim’s father?
18.What does the blind man threaten to do to Jim?
19.What happens to Billy after the blind man leaves?
20.Why does Jim cry at the end of this chapter?
Chapter 4 21.What do Jim and his mother decide to do?
22.Why do the townspeople refuse to help Jim and his mother?
23.How do Jim and his mother know they have until ten o’clock till the pirates return?
24.Where does Jim find the key to the captain’s sea chest?
25.What do they find in the sea chest? STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS: Treasure Island 26.What does Jim take from the sea chest?
Chapter 5 27.When the pirates get to the inn, what are they looking for?
28.What caused the buccaneers to separate and run away?
29.How is Pew killed?
30.Why does Jim want to go to Dr. Livesey’s house?
Chapter 6 31.What does Squire Trelawney tell the doctor about Captain Flint?
32.What was found inside the oilskin packet?
33.What things were written inside Billy Bones’ account book?
34.What plans does the Squire make after he sees the map?
PART II: Chapter 7 35.Why did the doctor go to London?
36.Where did Jim stay while the doctor & squire were gone?
37.How did the squire get the “Hispaniola”?
38.Who will be the ship’s cook and how did he lose one of his legs?
39.What had the squire done for the Admiral Benbow Inn?
Chapter 8 40.How does Jim describe the Spy-glass?
41.How does Jim describe Long John when he sees him?
42.What will Jim’s job be on the ship?
43.Who did Jim see leaving the Spy-glass?
44.How does Long John describe Tom Morgan to Jim?
45.What is Dr. Livesey’s opinion of Long John Silver?
Chapter 9 46. What 3 things does Capt. Smollett not like so far?
47.How did the captain hear about the ship going after treasure?
48.What does the captain think about his officer, Mr. Arrow?
49.Where does the captain want the powder and arms stored?
50.What is Trelawney’s opinion of Capt. Smollett? STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS: Treasure Island Answer all the following questions on this paper. Questions DO NOT have to be answered in complete sentences. Remember: use EXACT words from the book as your answers & include DETAILS. You may use your study guide answers when you take a Reading Quiz on these chapters.
Chapter 10 1. How had Mr. Arrow changed after a day or two at sea?
2. What was the ship’s mystery?
3. How does the captain explain what happened to Mr. Arrow?
4. What was Job Anderson’s job on the ship?
5. Who was Israel Hands?
6. How did the coxswain describe Long John to Jim?
7. What is Long John’s parrot’s name & what does the parrot say?
8. How old is the parrot according to Long John?
9. When do the men get duff?
10.What happened to Jim after he climbed into the apple barrel?
Chapter 11 11.On Flint’s ship what was Long John’s job?
12.As Silver explains it, how did he lose his leg?
13.What was the name of Flint’s old ship?
14.How does Long John describe “gentlemen of fortune” (pirates)?
15.What does Israel Hands want from Capt. Smollett’s cabin?
16.According to Silver, what has happened to Flint and his crew (Pew & Bones)?
17.Who has the key to the rum & how did that explain Mr. Arrow’s death?
Chapter 12 18.What is the name of the land spotted by Smollett?
19.Why was Long John disappointed when he saw the captain’s chart?
20.What does Capt. Smollett tell them about the land he’s sighted?
21.What does the squire admit to the captain after listening to Jim?
22.Why does the doctor believe Jim can help more than anyone?
PART III: Chapter 13 23.What caused the men to grumble over their work?
24.What was the smell that hung over the anchorage? STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS: Treasure Island 25.What does the doctor think the smell might be?
26.What was the conduct of the men like now?
27.How was Long John acting despite the discontent of the rest of the men?
28.What does the captain allow the crew to do?
29.How did Jim get on a boat going to land?
30.What did Jim do when the boat got near some shore trees?
Chapter 14 31.What was the sudden noise that Jim heard?
32.Who made the sound that Jim heard?
33.How did Silver kill Tom?
Chapter 15 34.What did Jim see leap behind a tree?
35.Who is this man and what does he look like?
36.How long has he been on the island?
37.What kind of food has he been eating and what does he ask for from Jim?
38.What does Jim find out about Flint’s treasure and six of his seamen?
39.Why was Ben marooned?
40.What does Ben keep under the white rock?
Chapter 16 41.Why do the doctor and Hunter decide to go ashore?
42.Why did the doctor particularly like the stockade (log house) he found?
43.What did Hunter, Joyce, and the doctor load onto the boat to take ashore?
44.Who decides to join the captain and others when they leave the Hispaniola? STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS: Treasure Island Answer all the following questions on this paper. Questions DO NOT have to be answered in complete sentences. Remember: use EXACT words from the book as your answers & include DETAILS. You may use your study guide answers when you take a Reading Quiz on these chapters. Chapter 17 1. Why was the fifth trip in the jolly boat different from the other trips?
2. What is discovered about Israel Hands job on Flint’s ship?
3. Who was the best shot among the men on the boat?
4. What caused the boat to sink?
5. As the men waded ashore, what was left behind?
Chapter 18 6. Who dies at the stockade in the battle against the pirates?
7. What does he ask for before he dies?
8. Where do the two cannonballs (round-shot) land?
9. What does the squire think the pirates are aiming at?
10. Why does the captain refuse to take down the flag (strike the colours)?
11. Who is seen climbing over the stockade?
Chapter 19 12. How does Ben Gunn know Jim’s friends have taken over the stockade?
13. How and when does Ben want to see the squire or the doctor?
14. What flag does Jim see flying on the Hispaniola?
15. What does Jim see the men demolishing?
16. Why was the log house filled with sand and smoke?
17. What jobs did Capt. Smollett give to everyone?
18. What does the doctor carry in his snuff box?
19. What does Jim hear that causes him to wake up?
Chapter 20 20. According to Silver, why was he elected captain by his men?
21. What terms did Silver ask of Capt. Smollett?
22. What does Silver tell the captain he wants?
23. What choices does Silver give the captain if he gives him the chart?
24. What does the captain say will happen if Silver and his men surrender unarmed?
25. What happens when Silver asks for a “hand up”?
26. What does Silver say will happen “before an hour’s out”? Chapter 21 27. What orders were given to the doctor? STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS: Treasure Island 28. What job is given to Trelawney and Gray?
29. What will Hawkins and the captain be doing in the battle against the pirates?
30. Based on the number of guns shots, where would the main attack be developed?
31. Where did the pirates come from and what knocked the doctor’s musket into bits?
32. When the pirates swarm the house, what order does the captain give?
33. How many pirates are dead at the end?
34. After the battle ended, what was the condition of Hunter, Joyce, and the captain?
Chapter 22 35. What kind of injuries does the captain have?
36. What did the doctor say the captain couldn’t do for weeks to come?
37. When the doctor left, what did he take with him?
38. What does Jim take with him when he leaves the stockade?
39. How does Jim describe Ben’s boat that he found?
40. What was the great advantage of Ben’s boat (the coracle)?
41. What was Jim’s idea (notion) for the Hispaniola?
Chapter 23 42. Why did Jim think it would be “foolhardy” to cut the Hispaniola from her anchor?
43. Who were the 2 pirates on board the ship?
44. When Jim fell asleep in the coracle, what did he dream of?
Chapter 24 45. What were the “huge slimy monsters” Jim saw on the rock and in the sea?
45. What sight caused Jim to “change the nature” of his thoughts?
46. Where did Jim presume the men on board were taking the Hispaniola?
47. What did Jim think had happened to the men on board the ship?
48. What happened when Jim was not a hundred yards away from the ship?
49. How did Jim get on board the ship and what happened to the coracle?
Chapter 25 50. In what condition were the two men on board the ship?
50. What was the one word Israel Hands said to Jim?
51. What did Jim find for himself when he went into the cellar?
52. What does Jim tell Hands is the reason he has come aboard the ship?
53. What does Hands want in exchange for telling Jim how to sail the ship?
54. Where does Jim want to take the ship? STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS: Treasure Island Answer all the following questions on this paper. Questions DO NOT have to be answered in complete sentences. Remember: use EXACT words from the book as your answers & include DETAILS. You may use your study guide answers when you take a Reading Quiz on these chapters. Chapter 26 1. Why does Hands Believe the Hispaniola is an unlucky ship?
2. When Jim leaves to go get wine for Hands, what does he see Hands doing?
3. When Jim fired his pistol at Hands, why didn’t it work?
4. Where does Hands’ dagger land when he throws it at Jim?
5. How does Jim respond in his pain and surprise?
Chapter 27 6. How does Jim feel after seeing Hands body lying under water?
7. How badly is Jim wounded?
8. What does Jim do with the dead pirate O’Brien?
9. When Jim get to the block house, why does he fear something has gone wrong in his absence?
10. What announces Jim’s arrival into the block house?
Chapter 28 11. How many pirates have taken over the block house?
12. What does Silver tell Jim that the doctor has said about him (JIM)?
13. What does Silver tell Jim about his friends?
14. What does Jim tell Silver he heard in the apple barrel?
15. What does Jim say about what has happened to the ship and the men aboard?
16. If Silver doesn’t kill Jim, what does Jim say he will do for Silver and the “fellows”?
17. According to Silver, why he is now the captain?
18. Why did the pirates leave Silver and Jim and go outside?
19. What did the doctor give to Silver?
Chapter 29 20. What did the pirates give to Silver?
21. What paper did the pirates use to make the black spot?
22. What 4 reasons does George give for why Silver should be “deposed” as captain?
23. What does Siler show the pirates to make them change their minds? Chapter 30 24. Who arrives at the stockade and wakes up everyone?
25. Why has he come there?
26. What promise does Jim make to Silver before he goes to talk to the doctor? STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS: Treasure Island 27. What does Jim tell the doctor he is afraid the pirates will do to him?
28. What does the doctor ask Jim to do?
29. Why doesn’t Jim do it?
30. What advice does the doctor give to Silver about the treasure?
31. What is the 2nd piece of advice the doctor gives to Silver before he leaves?
Chapter 31 32. What does Silver tell Jim in private before breakfast?
33. What does Silver explain to his men during breakfast?
34. Why does Silver believe the pirates have the upper hand on Dr. Livesey and his men?
35. Why is Jim so upset by Silver’s speech to the pirates? (what does he realize now?)
36. What weapons did Silver have?
37. After looking at the chart, what was noted as the principal mark?
38. What was found when the pirates reached the spot of a big pine?
39. How does George know it was a seaman there?
40. In what position are the bones lying?
41. According to Silver, what is the purpose of the bones?
Chapter 32 42. How does the pirate crew react to the singing they hear?
43. How does Silver react?
44. How does Silver’s reaction change the mood of the crew?
45. What does one pirate want to do now?
46. What does Dick do after hearing the voice again?
47. What did the pirates find in the “great excavation” when they arrive (list the things)?
Chapter 33 48. What does Silver give to Jim?
49. What do the buccaneers do with the pit?
50. What stopped Merry from leading a charge?
51. What does the doctor tell Jim about Ben and the treasure?
52. So why did the doctor give Silver the chart, their supplies, and the stockade?
53. Who did they see at Ben Gunn’s cave?
Chapter 34 54. What work did Gray and Ben Gunn do? STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS: Treasure Island 55. What did the others do to help with the treasure?
56. What was Jim’s job?
57. What did they decide to do with the 3 pirates who escaped?
58. When they saw these 3 pirates on the sand with raised arms, why did they leave them?
59. What did Ben Gunn confess had happened wile the others went ashore?
60. What happened to Gray after they returned to Bristol?
Treasure Island Literary Elements Main Characters Jim Hawkins: a boy about 15 yrs. old Complications: who lives & works at his parents’ inn in There is 1 treasure map & everyone wants it (good guys vs. England. He is brave, smart, & very bad guys) trusting. Long John Silver: a 1-legged pirate & Pirates get on board the ship & mutiny. This divides good ruthless killer. He is a good leader, a liar, vs. bad. Sometimes Jim has to choose sides. & very charming. Squire Trelawney: a rich man who loves adventure but can’t keep a secret. Themes SETTINGS: Dr. Livesey: a local country doctor who Initiation (growing up) Admiral Benbow Inn is also the local sheriff. He is kind, loyal, Greed (everyone wants Bristol, England & a good friend to Jim. treasure) The Hispaniola Capt. Smollett: experienced English Duty (everyone must do their Treasure Island - sea-captain who is brave & very strict part) (Skeleton Island) about rules. Danger vs. will to live Stockade/blockade Billy Bones: a lonely old pirate who has Overcoming evil (pirates = Cave/swamp a secret past with other pirates. He drinks evil) Spy-Glass too much rum & gets angry. Squire’s Hall Blind Pew: an old pirate who was blinded from an adventure at sea. Black Dog: a pirate crew member of the other pirates. He’s rough, violent, & lies. Point of View Mr. Arrow: a drunken 1st mate who is First person (Jim & Dr. Livesey) too trusting Foreshadowing Capt. Smollett doesn’t like the crew or the purpose of the trip. Jim overhears plans while in the apple barrel.