Treasure Island - Chapter 28 Comprehension Quiz

“I need a caulker, for there’s trouble on hand. And talking o’ trouble, why did that doctor give me the chart, Jim?” My face expressed a wonder so unaffected that he saw the needlessness of further questions. “Ah, well, he did, though,” said he. “And there’s something under that, no doubt—something, surely, under that, Jim—bad or good.” And he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst.

Vocabulary: In the sentence, “Well, I’ll take a dram myself, Jim,” said he. “I need a caulker, for there’s trouble on hand,” what does “caulker” most nearly mean as used here?

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Which choice best states the main idea of this chapter?

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Inference: Consider the passage, “Silver leant back against the wall, his arms crossed, his pipe in the corner of his mouth, as calm as though he had been in church; yet his eye kept wandering furtively, and he kept the tail of it on his unruly followers.” What can be most reasonably inferred from this description?

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Theme connection: Read Silver’s declaration—“I’m cap’n here by ’lection. I’m cap’n here because I’m the best man by a long sea-mile. You won’t fight, as gentlemen o’ fortune should; then, by thunder, you’ll obey, and you may lay to it!” Which theme from Treasure Island does this quote most strongly connect to?

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