Treasure Island - Chapter 23 Comprehension Quiz

Suddenly the schooner in front of me gave a violent yaw, turning, perhaps, through twenty degrees; and almost at the same moment one shout followed another from on board; I could hear feet pounding on the companion ladder and I knew that the two drunkards had at last been interrupted in their quarrel and awakened to a sense of their disaster. I lay down flat in the bottom of that wretched skiff and devoutly recommended my spirit to its Maker. At the end of the straits, I made sure we must fall into some bar of raging breakers, where all my troubles would be ended speedily; and though I could, perhaps, bear to die, I could not bear to look upon my fate as it approached. So I must have lain for hours, continually beaten to and fro upon the billows, now and again wetted with flying sprays, and never ceasing to expect death at the next plunge. Gradually weariness grew upon me; a numbness, an occasional stupor, fell upon my mind even in the midst of my terrors, until sleep at last supervened and in my sea-tossed coracle I lay and dreamed of home and the old Admiral Benbow.

Vocabulary: In the sentence "I dropped upon the thwart again, none too soon, for I was near overboard," what does the word "thwart" most nearly mean in this context?

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

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Inference: Based on this passage—"But they were not only tipsy; it was plain that they were furiously angry. Oaths flew like hailstones ... until the next crisis came and in its turn passed away without result."—what can you infer?

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Theme connection: The crew sings "Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest—Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest—" and Jim thinks how "busy drink and the devil" are in the cabin. This most strongly connects to which recurring theme in Treasure Island?

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