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Treasure Island

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Personal Background
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About the Novel

Introduction
A Brief Synopsis
List of Characters
Character Map

Summaries and Commentaries

Part I, The Old Buccaneer (Chapters I–VI)
Part II, The Sea Cook (Chapters VII–XII)
Part III, My Shore Adventure (Chapters XIII–XV)
Part IV, The Stockade (Chapters XVI–XXI)
Part V, My Sea Adventure (Chapters XXII–XXVII)
Part VI, Captain Silver (Chapters XXVIII–XXXIV)

Character Analyses

John Trelawney
Jim Hawkins
Long John Silver

Critical Essays

Themes in Treasure Island
Three Mariners: Crusoe, Gulliver, and Gunn

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1:  Billy Bones pays Jim to look out for “seafaring men,” including

a. a blind beggar

b. a one-legged man

c. someone calling himself “Captain Flint”

d. someone calling himself “Captain Smollett”
2:  Jim’s father dies of

a. tuberculosis

b. a sudden stroke

c. yellow fever

d. an unidentified illness
3:  Captain Smollett says he does not like the voyage for, among other things, one of the following reasons.

a. The sea-cook, Silver, is rumored to be a pirate.

b. The ship is considered unlucky.

c. The first mate, Arrow, is too familiar with the crew.

d. He, Smollett, doesn’t want young Jim aboard the ship.
4:  Ben Gunn tells Jim he was

a. the only survivor of a shipwreck

b. marooned ashore by shipmates

c. left by Flint to guard the treasure

d. sent to the island as punishment for gambling
5:  As a pointer to the treasure site, Flint has left

a. the “black spot”

b. a rum bottle secured to a pine tree by a clove hitch

c. the skeleton of a man he killed

d. a felled tree with his initials carved into its bark
6:  When Silver and the surviving pirates find the treasure site, they

a. open a bottle of rum and drink to their good fortune

b. begin to carry the gold bars down to their boat on the shore

c. fight among themselves about who gets to kill Jim
7:  The reader sees the last of John Silver when

a. he is left marooned on Treasure Island with the other mutineers

b. he is hanged for piracy at Execution Dock

c. he escapes from the ship with Jim’s help

d. he escapes from the ship with Ben Gunn’s help
8:  Who said the following: “It’s my belief neither of you gentlemen know what you are about; but I’ll tell you my way of it—life or death, and a close run.”

a. Captain Smollett to Trelawney and Livesey before the voyage begins

b. Silver to Dick and Israel Hands while Jim listens from the apple barrel

c. Silver to Tom Morgan and George Merry after they have tried to depose him

d. Squire Trelawney to Silver and Hands as they cast off from Bristol
9:  Who said the following: “I wished a round score of men—in case of natives, buccaneers, or the odious French—and I had the worry of the deuce itself to find so much as half a dozen . . .”

a. Livesey to Silver as soon as the voyage is underway

b. Trelawney to Jim as soon as the voyage is underway

c. Silver to Dick and Israel Hands, overheard by Jim

d. Trelawney in his letter to Livesey and Redruth
10:  Who said the following:“[I]f none of the rest of you dare, . . Jim and I dare. Back we will go, the way we came, and small thanks to you big, hulking, chicken-hearted men.”

a. Trelawney to his servants, Livesey, and Smollett after the firing from the ship has stopped

b. Mrs. Hawkins to the villagers who refuse to return to the inn with her

c. Livesey to the pirates after he has visited the stockade to treat the sick and wounded

d. Billy Bones to the patrons of the inn after Black Dog’s visit
11:  Who said the following: “Darby M’Graw! . . . Darby M’Graw! . . . Fetch aft the run, Darby!”

a. Silver’s parrot after Silver has given her some sugar

b. Silver, overheard by Jim from the apple barrel

c. Ben Gunn, intending to scare the pirates by repeating Flint’s last words in a ghostly voice

d. Billy Bones, after Pew has delivered “the black spot” to him



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