1. What does Jim’s father do for a living?
He is a farmer
He is a banker
He is an innkeeper
He is a lawyer
2. Why does Billy give Jim money each month?
To shine his boots
To bring him rum
To be on the lookout for Billy’s enemy
To guard his map
3. Where is Billy when he receives the black spot?
On the road
In the inn
On the ship
At the squire’s house
4. In what century is Treasure Island set?
Seventeenth
Eighteenth
Nineteenth
Twentieth
5. What is Pew’s most noticeable physical feature?
His blindness
His lameness
His leprosy
His deafness
6. To whom does Jim first show the map?
Pew
His father
Captain Smollett
Dr. Livesey
7. What is Long John Silver’s original job on the ship?
Captain
Cook
First mate
Doctor
8. Where is Jim when he overhears Silver’s plans for mutiny?
In the wine cellar
In an apple barrel
In the washroom
In the stockade
9. Where does Jim encounter Ben Gunn?
On the ship
In the stockade
At the pirates’ camp
In the woods
10. What does Jim hunt for after leaving Captain Smollett in the stockade?
Treasure
Rum
Medicine
A boat
11. How does Jim move the ship away from the pirate camp?
He cuts it adrift
He sails it at night
He bribes the crew
He pulls it with his boat
12. What is the name of Long John Silver’s parrot?
Cap’n Flint
Cap’n Hook
Cap’n Billy
Cap’n Morgan
13. Who is the first to discover Flint’s treasure on the island?
Silver
Jim
Ben Gunn
Livesey
14. How does Ben Gunn frighten the pirates?
By putting spiders in their beds
By imitating the dead Flint’s voice
By telling them their rum supply has run out
By telling them the treasure map is a hoax
15. Who interrupts Jim’s narration to tell the story for a while?
Smollett
Silver
Trelawney
Livesey
16. Whom does Jim fight on the ship when he sneaks on board?
Israel Hands
Tom Redruth
Long John Silver
Arrow
17. When the treasure was initially discovered, where was it taken immediately after its excavation?
To the ship
To the stockade
To a cave
To the river
18. Why does Silver visit Smollett in the stockade?
To make a truce
To extort money
To take a hostage
To fetch medicine
19. When the pirates hand Silver a black spot toward the end of the novel, what is its message?
That Silver has one day to find the treasure
That Silver has been deposed
That Silver will be executed
That Silver will be marooned
20. Which of the following characters does Silver take hostage?
Ben
Smollett
Livesey
Jim
21. How does Billy Bones die?
Silver kills him
From a stroke
From gangrene
He is hanged for piracy
22. What does Hispaniola signify in the novel?
The name of the island
The name of Silver’s wife
The name of the ship
The name of the inn
23. What is the last clue guiding the pirates to the treasure site?
A skeleton
A mark on a tree
An overturned chest
An unfurled flag
24. What happens to Silver at the end of the novel?
He is hanged
He is marooned on the island
He returns to England
He steals some of the treasure and sneaks away
25. What flag does Smollett fly over the stockade?
The White Cross
The Jolly Roger
The Union Jack
The Green Moon
