Answer Key to Password Readers
Treasure Island
Chapter 1
pages 4–5
(1)
1. Hundreds of years ago, Evidence: Sailing ship, their clothes, swords
2. on the coast of England
3. a violent old man
(2)
1. Page 4, Panel 1
2. Pages 6, 7
3. Page 5, Panels 9 and 10
4. Page 5, Panel 6
pages 8–9
(3)
1. old pirate
2. Dr Livesey
3. Black Dog, a stranger
4. Jim
5. Captain Bones
6. Jim
7. the doctor
8. Black Dog
(4)
1. lived
5. sat down
(5)
1. Captain Bones
2. Dr Livesey
3. Dr Livesey
4. Black Dog
5. Black Dog
(6)
They, f
you, d
He, b
you, c
We, e
I, b
(7)
2. had
6. went
3. arrived
7. heard
4. drank
8. ran
him, a
me, b
you, b
they, e
g, h, d, f, b, c, a, e, i
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Chapter 2
pages 10–11
(1)
1. He’s blind and uses a stick
2. He wants to see Captain Bones. He gives him the black spot
3. He dies
4. He falls under a horse and dies.
(2)
1. Page 12, Panel 3
2. Page 13, last panel
3. Page 11, last panel
4. Page 10, Panel 4
pages 14–15
(3)
1. F
2. T
3. F
4. F
(4)
1. said
(5)
1. The blind man
4. The blind man
7. The blind man
10. The blind man
(6)
1. Close
2. Look
5. Don’t take 6. Give
(7)
a, b, f, e, c, d
8.
1. ill / map
2. blind / inn
3. blind man / spot
4. black spot / died
5. map / chest
6. three / map
2. gave
5. T
6. F
3. came
2. The blind man
5. Captain Bones
8. The blind man
3. Don’t sit
7. Turn
7. F
8. T
4. cooked
5. saw
6. cold
3. The blind man
6. The blind man
9. The horse rider
4. Come
Chapter 3
pages 16–17
(1)
1. Where Captain Flint’s treasure is buried
2. Because the treasure is enormous and the finder will be rich.
3. Find the treasure.
4. He has a wooden leg.
(2)
1. c
2. d
3. a
4. b
2
pages 20–21
(3)
1. b
2. a
(4)
angry / sword / ill / afraid / inn / spot / dead / mother / chest / map
(5)
1. g
2. d
3. b
3. c
4. a
4. a
5. a
5. b
6. c
6. e
7. f
Settings (pages 22–23)
(from left to right): f, i, k, g, a, h, d, e, b, j, c
Chapter 4
pages 24–25
(1)
1. No, he doesn’t like the crew and the mission.
2. He is probably a bit frightened of him
3. Long John Silver
(2)
1. g
2. d
3. c
4. e
5. f
6. a
7. b
pages 28–29
(3)
1. Trelawney
2. Trelawney
3. Captain Smollett
4. Long John Silver
5. Captain Smollett
6. Captain Smollett
7. Trelawney
8. Long John Silver
(4)
1. Captain Flint
2. Captain Bones
3. Long John Silver
4. Trelawney
5. Smollett
6. Long John Silver
(5)
1. likes
(6)
e, g, b, h, c, f, a, d
(7)
Open
2. likes
3. doesn’t like
4. doesn’t like
5. like
3
Chapter 5
pages 28–29
(1)
1. Silver and a crew member, Israel Hands
2. terrified
3. at the island with the treasure
4. No, it is disturbing news
(2)
1. c
2. e
3. b
4. a
5. d
4. g
5. e
pages 34–35
(3)
1. Trelawney, e, f
2. Silver, a, c
3. Livesey, g
4. Trelawney, h, a
5. Israel Hands, a, h
6. Silver, a, d
(4)
1. d
(5)
apple / barrel / inside / in / silver / see / overheard / ship / island / treasure / kill /
shocked / Israel Hands / Shout / Barrel
(6)
f, i, e, g, a, h, d, b, c
2. b
3. f
6. a
7. c
Chapter 6
pages 36–37
(1)
1. On to the island
2. Jim goes with them
3. He hides in the trees
4. He stabs him
5. Because Tom refuses to join the mutineers
(2)
1. b
2. d
3. e
4. a
5. c
pages 40–41
(3)
1. boat
5. murderer
2. crutch
6. gold
3. stab
7. branch
(4)
1. T
3. F
4. F
5. T
6. F
(5)
a, f, g, d, e, b, h, c
(6)
1. h
4. e
5. f
6. a
2. F
2. d
3. c
4. hide
8. beach
7. b
8. g
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Chapter 7
pages 42–43
(1)
1. Ben Gunn
2. He was left behind when a ship sailed away
3. Abandon the ship, taking guns and food to the island
4. There are too many mutineers on the ship
5. They sail to the island and hold back the mutineers at the stockade
(2)
1. e
2. c
3. d
4. a
5. b
pages 48–49
(3)
1. Help! The boat’s going down!
2. Let’s put up the flag
3. What happened to you?
4. We can defend ourselves there.
5. Thank God you’re safe
6. In any case the ship isn’t safe
7. I haven’t spoken to another human being
8. Let me go!
9. The cannonball hit the side of the boat
10. Fortunately the water wasn’t deep
(4)
1. Silver / Tom
2. Ben Gunn
3. Billy Bones / Silver
4. Jim
5. Livesey
6. Gray
7. Trelawney
8. Redruth
(5)
1. Jim / man
2. Ben Gunn / abandoned
3. Jim / flag
4. Livesey / ship
5. Captain Smollett / guns
6. Livesey / bullet
7. Captain Smollett / mutineers
(6)
h, d, f, a, g, b, e, c,
Settings (pages 50–51)
(page 50, from top to bottom): e, i, f, a, g, c, h
(page 51, from left to right): b, d, j
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Chapter 8
pages 52–53
(1)
1. He dies
2. Yes, they are safe
3. Silver comes to visit
4. To ask for the treasure map
5. No, he is wild and promises revenge
(2)
a. shoot
b. drunk
c. sick
d. smash
e. crazy
f. alone
pages 56–57
(3)
1. By God, you’ll be sorry!
2. Perhaps it’s a trick.
3. In a week they will all be sick.
4. Will nobody help me?
5. Can’t we go inside?
6. We promise to leave you alone.
7. I’ll smash your old house like a bottle!
8. He wants you to go and meet him.
(4)
wanted / hid / followed / threw / stabbed / ran / met / told / left / help / heard / found
(5)
1. drunk
5. strange
(6)
f, e, c, g, d, b, h, a
2. sick
6. shoot
3. prison
7. smash
4. alone
8. crazy
Chapter 9
pages 58–59
(1)
1. They attack the stockade
2. They do not win the battle
3. Two are dead
4. To find Silver and his men
5. To cut the ship’s rope so the mutineers cannot use it.
(2)
1. d
2. c
3. a
4. b
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pages 62–63
(3)
1. Don’t come near me!
2. I must wait until it’s dark.
3. The battle was over.
4. Let’s get them!
5. I don’t think so, Sir.
6. How many of them did we get?
(4)
1. Hunter and Joyce are dead.
2. Captain Smollett is wounded.
3. Four or five.
4. To find Silver. He finds a boat.
5. He cuts the rope.
(5)
1. e
(6)
a, b, d, f, c, e
(7)
1. e
2. g
2. d
3. d
4. b
5. f
6. a
3. b
4. f
5. e
6. a
7. c
Chapter 10
pages 64–65
(1)
1. It is drifting at sea
2. They seem to be dead
3. Jim takes control with Hands’ help.
4. Israel Hands helps him and then attacks him
5. He is shot by Jim
(2)
1. d
2. c
3. b
4. e
5. a
pages 64–65
(3)
Help. I am a prisoner.
(4)
1. What am I going to do now?
2. But who is going to sail her?
3. Now I’ve got you, my boy.
4. By God, I needed that!
5. We’re at sea!
6. We’re nearly there.
7. I’ll teach you how to sail.
8. All right, Jim. You’ve got me.
7
(5)
1. mast
6. rope
2. captain
7. boat
(6)
k, i, f, a, j, e, b, c, g, h, d
3. cabin
8. cannon
4. crew
9. wheel
5. flag
10. barrel
Settings (pages 70–71)
(page 70, from top to bottom): i, j, k (left), f (centre), b (right), d, a
(page 71, from top to bottom): h, l, e, c, g
Chapter 11
pages 73–73
(1)
1. On to the island and to the stockade
2. Silver and his men
3. Rather scared
4. He wants to kill you
5. Silver saves him
(2)
a. forget
e. join
b. guard
f. find
c. dark
g. strange
d. prisoner
pages 76–77
(3)
1. I’ll never find the treasure with them.
2. It’s nice of you to come and visit us.
3. Silver will never find the ship here.
5. It’s getting dark.
6. You let us go and you can take the stockade.
(4)
1. Jim Hawkins
2. Joyce
3. Flint
4. Tom
5. Israel Hands
6. Gray
7. Trelawney
8. Black Dog
9. O’Brien
10. Ben Gunn
11. Bones
(5)
e, f, d, a, b, c
(6)
1. captain, b
4. guard, f
2. join, a
5. friend, d
3. help, help, c
6. sea, e
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Chapter 12
pages 78–79
(1)
1. A piece of paper with the black spot.
2. He let Captain Smollett go.
3. The map of Treasure Island.
4. No, they are pleased now.
5. Doctor Livesey.
6. No, he can’t.
(2)
1. c
2. f
3. a
4. b
5. d
6e
pages 82–83
(3)
1. Future
2. Imperative. Past tense
3. Future
4. Interrogative. Present simple
5. Future
(4)
1. Jim
2. Silver
3. Jim
4. Jim
(5)
1. g, a
2. c, b
3. a, d
4. e
(6)
1. b
(7)
Open
2. e
3. f
4. a
5. c
5. Silver
5. a, b
6. Merry
6. a, g
6. d
Chapter 13
pages 84–85
(1)
1. By boat to look for the treasure
2. To find the treasure
3. No, they are no
4. They have doubts about him
5. Three of them are killed
(2)
1. b
2. d
3. e
4. c
5. a
pages 90–91
(3)
1. So you want to change sides again.
2. Flint left him here to show the way.
3. The treasure’s gone!
4. Let them go.
5. It makes my blood go cold.
9
(4)
1. point
5. piece
2. worried
6. soft
3. blood
7. hill
(5)
1. F
3. F
5. T
(6)
f, b, i, a, g, d, e, c, h
(7)
d, b, c, f, a, e
2. T
4. T
4. pull
Chapter 14
pages 92–93
(1)
1. To Ben Gunn’s cave
2. In the cave
3. Ben Gunn
4. Yes, he does probably.
(2)
1. c
2. a
3. d
4. b
pages 96–97
(3)
1. Ben Gunn did.
2. Because he knew the treasure was somewhere else, not as on the map.
3. At the mouth of the island.
4. Seventeen
5. Three
6. He takes some treasure and disappears.
7. Some of the treasure but not all of it.
(4)
1. Livesey
5. Livesey
2. Livesey
6. Livesey
3. Livesey
7. Captain Smollett
1. f
3. k
4. j
5. d, c
3. c
4. d
5. e
2. c
(5)
b, d, c, e, a
(6)
1. a
2. b
6. f, i
4. Livesey
8. Ben Gunn
7. g. h
8. c, b
About the Story
Characters (page 103)
(1)
1. Ben Gunn 2. Silver
5. Livesey
6. Merry
(2)
Open
3. Trelawney
7. Smollett
4. Bones
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(3)
1.
a. Friendly, good sense of humour
b. Severe, unfriendly
2.
He realises that Silver is a killer and very greedy.
He sees Captain Smollett showing leadership in difficult situations.
Places (page 105)
(1)
1. stockade
4. spyglass
7. San Cristobal
2. Bristol
5. Hispaniola
8. apple barrel
3. Admiral Benbow
6. North Bay Cove
9. treasure
Plot (pages 106–107)
(1)
1. e
2. b
(2)
1.
In the apple barrel
A plot to kill who are not Silver’s men
Silver and Tom
On the island
Silver stabs Tom.
Because he will not join the mutiny.
Silver and two mutineers
On the island
To stop Captain Smollett and the others
On the ship
Israel Hands
Jim shoots Hands.
At the place the treasure is supposed to be
Because there is only one gold coin
Silver saves his life.
At the place the map says the treasure is buried
Because there is no treasure
In Ben Gunn’s cave
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
3. f
4. c
5. a
6. d
Not Only Glossary (pages 108–111)
(1)
battle, fire, stab, bullet, mutiny, sword, explosion, cannon, kill, sea, gun, flag
(2)
1. to throw
6. to bury
2. to hit
7. to jump
3. to break
8. to cut
4. to climb
9. to catch
5. to hide
10. to point
(3)
Across
3. branch
11. parrot
1. crutch
6. sea
6. skeleton
12. cave
2. treasure
8. cook
7. lion
13. sip
4. hill
10. beach
8. chest
Down
5. bandage
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