You can’t fight us—Gray, there, got away from five of you. Your ship’s in irons, Master Silver; you’re on a lee shore, and so you’ll find. I stand here and tell you so; and they’re the last good words you’ll get from me, for in the name of heaven, I’ll put a bullet in your back when next I meet you. Tramp, my lad. Bundle out of this, please, hand over hand, and double quick.” Silver’s face was a picture; his eyes started in his head with wrath. He shook the fire out of his pipe. “Give me a hand up!” he cried. Illustration: “Give me a hand up!” he cried. “Not I,” returned the captain. “Not I,” returned the captain. “Who’ll give me a hand up?” he roared. Not a man among us moved. Growling the foulest imprecations, he crawled along the sand till he got hold of the porch and could hoist himself again upon his crutch. Then he spat into the spring. “There!” he cried. “That’s what I think of ye. Before an hour’s out, I’ll stove in your old block house like a rum puncheon. Laugh, by thunder, laugh! Before an hour’s out, ye’ll laugh upon the other side. Them that die’ll be the lucky ones.” And with a dreadful oath he stumbled off, ploughed down the sand, was helped across the stockade, after four or five failures, by the man with the flag of truce, and disappeared in an instant afterwards among the trees.

Vocabulary: In the quote "I had already deserted my eastern loophole and crept up behind the captain," what does "loophole" most nearly mean as used here?

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Main idea: Which choice best states the central idea of this chapter?

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Inference: Based on the quotes—"He wasn’t dead when I got round to him, not he." and "Ben Gunn’s last words came back to my mind."—what is the best inference about what happened during the night?

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Theme connection: Consider the quote, "We want that treasure, and we’ll have it—that’s our point!" Which theme from Treasure Island does this most strongly connect to?

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