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Treasure Island Final Test (Plot & Voc)
Contributed by: Blosser
  • 1. What did Jim's father do for a living?
A) He was a lawyer.
B) He was a farmer.
C) He was a banker.
D) He was an innkeeper.
  • 2. Why did Captain Billy Bones give Jim money each month when they were at the Admiral Benbow Inn?
A) He gave him money to be on the lookout for a one-legged sailor.
B) He gave him money to guard his treasure map.
C) He gave him money to secretly get him more booze.
D) He gave him money to shine his boots.
  • 3. Where is Billy Bones when he receives the black spot?
A) Billy receives the black spot on a cliff overlooking the ocean.
B) Billy receives the black spot on the ship.
C) Billy receives the black spot when they realize he's been hiding in the apple barrel.
D) Billy receives the black spot in the Inn.
  • 4. What happened to Blind Pew?
A) Blind Pew disappears and is never heard from again.
B) Blind Pew was hired to take care of the Inn in Jim Hawkin's absence.
C) Blind Pew was killed when he was run over by horses.
D) Blind Pew was hired as a hand on the Hispaniola.
  • 5. What is Long John Silver's original job on the Hispaniola?
A) He is the ship's cook.
B) He is the First Mate.
C) He is the Captain of the ship.
D) He is the doctor.
  • 6. When Jim falls asleep in the apple barrel, he wakes to what?
A) He hears Long John confessing all the pirates' plans to Dr. Livesey.
B) He has a nightmare and jumps out to tell the Squire.
C) He hears Long John and his girlfriend planning when they will get married.
D) He overhears Long John and some of the crew planning a mutiny.
  • 7. How does Jim move the ship out of sight of the pirate camp on shore?
A) He bribes the crew with part of the stolen treasure.
B) He pulls it with his coracle.
C) He sails it at night.
D) He cuts it adrift.
  • 8. Who is the first to discover Flint's treasure on the island?
A) Ben Gunn
B) Jim Hawkins
C) Long John Silver
D) Israel Hands
  • 9. How does Ben Gunn frighten the pirates?
A) He frightens them by putting spiders in their beds.
B) He frightens them by imitating the dead Flint's voice.
C) He frightens them by telling them their rum supply has run out.
D) He tells them that the treasure map is a hoax.
  • 10. Who interrupts Jim's narration and is the storyteller for a while?
A) Long John Silver
B) Captain Smollett
C) Dr. Livesey
D) Squire Trelawney
  • 11. When Jim sneaks on the Hispaniola, what is the result of his fight with Israel Hands?
A) Jim is shot in the leg and Israel Hands ties him up.
B) Jim is pinned to the mast with a knife, and Israel Hands is killed.
C) Jim escapes Israel Hands and sails his coracle back to the island.
D) Isreal Hands falls into the water, swims back to the ship, and captures Jim.
  • 12. When the treasure was initially discovered on the island, where was it taken immediately after its excavation?
A) to a cave
B) to the stockade
C) to the ship
D) to the river
  • 13. Why does Long John Silver visit Captain Smollett in the stockade?
A) He visits him to fetch supplies.
B) He visits him to make a truce.
C) He visits him to threaten him in exchange for money.
D) He visits him to take a hostage.
  • 14. When the pirates hand Silver a black spot toward the end of the novel, what is its message?
A) You are to give us Jim or we will kill you both.
B) You are deposed (removed from your position as Captain.)
C) You are going to be marooned on the island when we leave.
D) You are going to die.
  • 15. How does Billy Bones die?
A) He is run over by horses.
B) He dies from a stroke brought on by alcoholism and fear.
C) He is killed by Long John Silver.
D) He is hanged for piracy.
  • 16. What happens to Long John Silver at the end of the novel?
A) He is marooned on the island.
B) He is tried for piracy, but his kindness to Jim lessens his sentence to imprisonment.
C) He is hanged for piracy.
D) He steals some of the treasure and sneaks away.
  • 17. Whose failure to keep a secret, and foolishness in letting a complete stranger choose the crew puts the entire treasure quest at risk?
A) Squire Trelawney
B) Captain Smollett
C) Captain Flint, the parrot
D) Jim Hawkins
  • 18. Why did the pirates tip Billy Bones the black spot?
A) They were angry because he marooned the other pirates on the island.
B) They were looking for Flint's map -- which was in his treasure chest.
C) They wante to kidnap Jim and knew that Billy Bones protected him.
D) They were getting revenge because he was the one who blinded Pew.
  • 19. What does the return crew of the Hispaniola do to the remaining three mutineers?
A) They shoot them.
B) They go through a trial and are hanged.
C) They're sentenced to labor work for two years in exchange for their freedom.
D) They're marooned.
  • 20. How does Ben Gunn use his share of the fortune?
A) He spends or loses it in about two and a half weeks.
B) The book never really says what he does with the money.
C) He becomes part owner of a full-rigged ship.
D) He gets a good paying job and settles down with a family.
  • 21. What word means "discolored by injury or bruising"?
A) lee
B) diabolical
C) livid
D) ebb
  • 22. What word means "a windlass that winds up ropes or cables"?
A) dory
B) rigging
C) capstan
D) schooner
  • 23. What word means "one of a seafaring group who preys upon ships and settlements"?
A) spars
B) buccaneer
C) forecastle
D) swabs
  • 24. What word means "a sailor's song"?
A) colors
B) reiterated
C) keel
D) chanty
  • 25. What word means "moving in a stealthy or sneaky manner"?
A) rigging
B) fawning
C) trundling
D) skulking
  • 26. What word means "an anchorage or where a ship docks"?
A) port
B) spar
C) bow
D) lee
  • 27. What word means "to pull or move by violent twisting"?
A) miscreant
B) wrest
C) trundle
D) rebuff
  • 28. What word means "the bottom of a boat"?
A) port
B) spar
C) keel
D) lee
  • 29. What word means "to retreat or flow back"?
A) skulk
B) keel-hawl
C) rebuff
D) ebb
  • 30. What word means "of or relating to a characteristic of the devil -- wicked"?
A) repugnant
B) diabolical
C) livid
D) incivility
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