Vocab
A characteristic of the Devil, or so evil to be suggestive of the Devil.
What is Diabolical
Historically a box that contained flint, steel, and a combustible item used to start fires; a thing that is readily ignited; something that can easily catch fire.
What is a Tinder Box
What did the stranger who came to the inn, have with him?
An old chest
The reader can tell that when Billy's journal says someone "Gott it", this means...
They were murdered
How have the attitudes of the crew changed since they arrived on the island?
The crew is irritable and discontent
A civil officer or lay judge who administers the law.
What is Magistrate
Punish (someone) by dragging them through the water under the keel of a ship, either across the width or from bow to stern, tied hand and foot and across sharp barnacle shells.
What is Keelhauling
This novel is written in what perspective?
Jim writes that this visitor to his father's inn sings "...in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars".
What literary device is this?
First person
Imagery
Dr. Livesey believes that everyone will be able to keep quiet about the treasure except for who?
Squire Trelawney
Who kills Tom, and how do they do it?
Silver flings his crutch at Tom’s back, knocking him down, and then walks over and kills him with his knife.
A pirate, originally of the Spanish-American coasts.
What is Buccaneer
exerts a modifying or controlling influence on.
What is modulated
At the start of Ch. 3, Billy asks Jim to get him a glass of rum. This is a bad idea because...
Livesey predicted that if Billy kept drinking, he'd die
The reader can infer that Long John Silver isn't actually a cook, but a...
How does the crew feel about Long John Silver so far?
A Pirate
They all really like him
What does Jim see in the trees?
What does he predict that it is?
Ben Gunn
He fears that it is a cannibal.
Unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke.
What is Apoplexy
Additional items of dress or equipment, or other items carried or worn by a person or used for a particular activity.
What is accoutrement
How does the Blind man surprise Jim?
He is actually super strong despite his disabilities
What happens to Mr. Arrow?
When Jim is in the apple barrel, he overhears...
He sneaks away on a rowboat
The Pirates planning to kill the non-pirate crew to take the treasure for themselves
How has the perspective changed in chapter 16?
Dr. Livesey takes over the narration at this point
Historically a box that contained flint, steel, and a combustible item used to start fires; a thing that is readily ignited; something that can easily catch fire.
What is a Tinder box
Infection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces.
What is dysentery
What does Jim's mom take from Billy's chest?
How much rent did The Captain owe Jim's mother?
Why was it hard to count the money in the Captain's chest?
The money that he owed the Inn
He owed 6 months rent.
The money was from many different countries.
What does the captain give Long John Silver when the crew sees land?
What does the captain mean when he says that Long John Silver “Would look remarkably well from a yard-arm”?
The real map
He should be hanged
How do they avoid the cannon fire?
What do the end up losing?
They hide in the stockades
The men are forced to leave half of their provisions behind when they wade ashore.