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150 multiple-choice questions and 45 flashcards, written to the Common Core ELA 6-9 reading literature; middle-school adventure novel staple blueprint. Every question carries a full rationale.
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Common Core ELA 6-9 reading literature; middle-school adventure novel staple
CoStudy's Treasure Island (Stevenson) bank holds 195 items. Every multiple-choice question carries a written rationale explaining why the correct answer is correct and why each distractor is tempting but wrong.
A sample of 12 multiple-choice questions from the bank, with the full rationale shown.
Silver receives the black spot from his own men while:
Answer: A — Holding Jim hostage in the stockade
B/C/D) Wrong. A) The mutineers, frustrated with Silver's hedging, deliver it; he produces Flint's map and turns the situation.
The chapter narrated by Dr. Livesey containing the truce with Silver is a craft choice that:
Answer: A — Solves the problem of how to dramatize events Jim cannot witness
B/C/D) Wrong. A) Stevenson's narrator swap is a controlled solution to first-person coverage limits.
Stevenson's stepson, the boy for whom he first drew the map, was:
Answer: D — Lloyd Osbourne
A/B/C) Wrong. D) Lloyd Osbourne later collaborated with Stevenson on several books.
The historical period of the novel's events is approximately:
Answer: A — Mid-1700s — the late stages of the pirate era
B/C/D) Wrong. A) The setting is roughly two generations before Stevenson's own time, in the closing pirate era.
The 'X marks the spot' convention on treasure maps is:
Answer: C — Largely a Treasure Island invention that became universal pirate iconography
A/B/D) Wrong. C) Stevenson's vivid map fixed the trope; subsequent fiction has copied it for over a century.
Jim Hawkins's age at the start of the novel is implied to be roughly:
Answer: B — Early teens — a boy
A) Slightly older than depicted. C) Too young to run an inn or sail. D) Wrong. B) He is old enough to work, fight, and reflect, but unmistakably a boy.
Jim's mother is characterized chiefly by:
Answer: C — Practical honesty — she insists on taking only what Bones owed her
A/B/D) Wrong. C) Her scrupulous accounting at the chest contrasts sharply with the pirates' lawlessness.
Black Dog's distinguishing feature is:
Answer: A — Two fingers missing from his left hand
B/C/D) Wrong. A) The missing fingers identify him to Jim and to readers as the same man who reappears at Silver's tavern.
Dr. Livesey's behavior toward Billy Bones at the inn sets up his characterization as:
Answer: D — Calm, principled, willing to threaten a violent man without bluster
A/B/C) Wrong. D) The early scene where Livesey quietly faces down Bones establishes his composure for the rest of the book.
Stevenson's national background is:
Answer: A — Scottish — born in Edinburgh
B/C/D) Wrong. A) Stevenson is part of the major Scottish literary line that includes Scott and later Conan Doyle.
The theme of adventure in the novel includes the implication that:
Answer: C — Adventure brings real cost — death, fear, lasting nightmares
A/B/D) Wrong. C) Jim's closing nightmares show that the thrill of the voyage and its damage are inseparable.
Treasure Island in the novel is located in:
Answer: B — The Caribbean
A/C/D) Wrong. B) The Caribbean setting fits the historical pirate era and the novel's Spanish-American port call.
6 sample cards from the 45 in the bank.
The stockade at the island?
The loyalists abandon the ship + occupy an old stockade. Multiple skirmishes follow. The Union Jack flies above; Silver's flag flies over the camp on the beach.
Final tally of treasure?
Coins of many nations + bars of gold + a small box of silver — all moved to Ben Gunn's cave + then loaded onto the Hispaniola for the voyage home.
Who is Captain Flint?
Dead pirate captain whose treasure they pursue. The map is from his cabin. Also the name of Silver's parrot.
Who is Captain Smollett?
Skipper of the Hispaniola. Disciplined, no-nonsense. Initially distrusted by Trelawney but proves indispensable.
Famous adaptations?
1934 MGM film (Wallace Beery); 1950 Disney (Robert Newton — defined modern movie-pirate speech); 1996 Muppet Treasure Island; 2002 Disney Treasure Planet (sci-fi reset).
Stevenson's narrative trick of the doctor's chapters?
Three middle chapters told by Dr. Livesey while Jim is offstage. Stevenson uses controlled point of view to cover events Jim cannot witness.
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The Treasure Island (Stevenson) bank holds 195 items: 150 multiple-choice questions, 45 flashcards. 18 of them are on this page to read free, with no signup.
Yes. Every multiple-choice item carries a written rationale that states the controlling principle behind the correct answer and then addresses each wrong option in turn — why it tempts and precisely where it fails. Knowing why the plausible answer was wrong is worth more than knowing which letter was right.
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Last reviewed 2026-08-22. Banks are written against the certifying body's published exam outline and re-checked when that outline changes — exams get renumbered, retired and reweighted, and a bank written to a superseded outline teaches the wrong proportions. Figures that are re-indexed annually are deliberately not asserted as rules; the questions test the governing principle instead.