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Treasure Island Points for Understanding Answer Key

The document outlines key points and events from 'Treasure Island' by Robert Louis Stevenson, focusing on characters like Jim Hawkins, Captain Smollet, and Long John Silver. It describes the plot involving pirates, treasure maps, and the adventures on the ship 'Hispaniola'. Additionally, it highlights the relationships and conflicts between the characters as they seek treasure and navigate dangers on the island.

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Treasure Island Points for Understanding Answer Key

The document outlines key points and events from 'Treasure Island' by Robert Louis Stevenson, focusing on characters like Jim Hawkins, Captain Smollet, and Long John Silver. It describes the plot involving pirates, treasure maps, and the adventures on the ship 'Hispaniola'. Additionally, it highlights the relationships and conflicts between the characters as they seek treasure and navigate dangers on the island.

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ELEMENTARY LEVEL

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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Points for Understanding


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pirates attack it. The attack fails. 3 He takes two pistols and
1 At an inn called the Admiral Benbow. 2 He is an old a sharp knife. Then he leaves the stockade.
sailor. He calls himself the Captain. A heavy wooden chest.
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3 He wants to talk to someone called Captain Bill. He
knows Captain Bill is staying at The Admiral Benbow. 1 He takes Ben Gunn’s boat. 2 He wants to cut through
the ‘Hispaniola’s’ anchor rope. Then the sea will carry the
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ship away to another part of the shore. The pirates will not
1 They want the sea-chest in the Captain’s room. 2 He be able to leave the island. 3 He sees two men fighting.
puts a piece of paper in Captain Bill’s hand. It has a large They are drunk. 4 He is still near the ship. He takes hold of
black spot on it. 3 Because the pirates are coming to get the anchor rope again. Suddenly, the wind blows the ship
the Captain’s sea-chest. 4 A bag of money and a leather round and water comes over the sides of Jim’s boat. It sinks
packet. 5 He tries to run away from the horsemen who are and Jim pulls himself up onto the deck of the ‘Hispaniola’.
coming to the inn. He falls in the road and the horsemen ride
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over him.

ANSWER KEY ■
1 The ship will stay on the sand of the bay while the tide is
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out. When the tide comes in, the water will get deeper. Then
1 A map of an island. It shows where Captain Flint buried his the ship will float off. 2 The pirate throws his knife at Jim as
treasure. 2 To pay for the use of a ship. And to sail to the he is climbing the ropes of the mainmast. 3 He shoots the
island to find the treasure. pirate in the chest and the pirate falls into the sea.
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1 The ship is called the ‘Hispaniola’. He hires twenty sailors. 1 He hears the parrot and the voice of Long John Silver. The
Captain Smollet. 2 He was badly injured in a sea battle. His pirates are inside and now Jim is their prisoner. 2 Because
left leg is missing and he carries a crutch. He keeps a parrot Silver has told them that a second ship is coming to look for
called Captain Flint. He has not sailed for a long time and he them. They can take the treasure and escape. 3 He comes
owns an inn in Bristol. But wants to sail again and he will be to see the wounded men. 4 Jim tells the Doctor where the
the ship’s cook. He has hired the crew of the ship. 3 He is ship is. The Doctor tells Jim that he has found Ben Gunn.
the cabin boy. He helps Long John Silver cook the food. And
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he washes the plates after the meals. 4 Long John Silver’s
parrot, Captain Flint. 1 He puts a rope round Jim’s neck and pulls him along.
2 (a) The skeleton of a man. (b) A strange high voice,
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singing the pirate song. 3 They find an empty hole.
1 (a) In an apple barrel which is nearly empty. (b) Long 4 Dr Livesey, Squire Trelawney and Ben Gunn.
John Silver and a young sailor. (c) They are talking about tak-
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ing over the ship. When they have found the treasure, Long
John Silver and his friends will kill the other sailors. Then they 1 In a cave at the north of the island. 2 Hundreds of gold
will steal the treasure. 2 He tells the Captain, the Squire coins. It is worth seven hundred thousand pounds.
and the Doctor about Silver’s plan. 3 (a) Long John Silver takes three thousand pounds from the
‘Hispaniola’ and he goes away. No one ever sees him again.
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(b) Captain Smollett buys himself a house on the coast.
1 He has seen the map from Captain Bill’s chest. (c) Dr Livesey becomes a wealthy doctor in London.
2 Thirteen men. 3 He gets into one of the boats and goes (d) Ben Gunn spends all his money in three weeks and
with them. 4 He sees Silver kill two of the men who have becomes a beggar. (e) Jim Hawkins buys a fine, large inn for
gone with him. his mother and himself. And he uses the rest of his money to
study.
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1 A man with long white hair and a long beard. His name is
Ben Gunn. 2 He was on Captain Flint’s ship. After Flint died,
he and the other men came to the island to look for the
treasure. Ben Gunn told them he knew where the treasure
was, but he did not. The other men marooned him on the
island.
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1 Dr Livesey. 2 Four. 3 The men on the ‘Hispaniola’ fire a


cannon at the boat. The shot misses them, but it makes the
boat move from side to side. Water gets into the boat. It is
so heavy that it sinks. 4 First, seven of Silver’s men run out
of the jungle and attack them. Then, when they get inside the
stockade, the ship fires its cannon at them again. It misses
them. They hear a shout, and Jim Hawkins climbs into the
stockade.
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1 He wants to talk to the men inside the stockade. He says


that if they give him the map he will let them live. 2 The

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