Treasure Island - Chapter 33 Comprehension Quiz

“You’re a good boy in your line, Jim, but I don’t think you and me’ll go to sea again. You’re too much of the born favourite for me. Is that you, John Silver? What brings you here, man?” “Come back to my dooty, sir,” returned Silver. “Ah!” said the captain, and that was all he said. What a supper I had of it that night, with all my friends around me; and what a meal it was, with Ben Gunn’s salted goat and some delicacies and a bottle of old wine from the Hispaniola. Never, I am sure, were people gayer or happier. And there was Silver, sitting back almost out of the firelight, but eating heartily, prompt to spring forward when anything was wanted, even joining quietly in our laughter—the same bland, polite, obsequious seaman of the voyage out.

Vocabulary: In the sentence "At the top, the squire met us. To me he was cordial and kind, saying nothing of my escapade either in the way of blame or praise," what does the word "cordial" most nearly mean as used here?

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Main idea: Which choice best states the main idea of "The Fall of a Chieftain"?

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Inference: Based on the line "And there was Silver, sitting back almost out of the firelight, but eating heartily, prompt to spring forward when anything was wanted, even joining quietly in our laughter—the same bland, polite, obsequious seaman of the voyage out," what is the best inference?

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Theme connection: Consider the passage "That was Flint’s treasure that we had come so far to seek and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the Hispaniola. How many it had cost in the amassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships scuttled on the deep, what brave men walking the plank blindfold, what shot of cannon, what shame and lies and cruelty, perhaps no man alive could tell." Which theme from Treasure Island does this most strongly connect to?

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