Quiz On Three Skeleton Key Short Story
Comprehension quiz of a short horror story
- 1.Why does the island bare a bad reputation?
- A.
Ghost had been seen on the island
- B.
Convicts exscaped to the island and wrecked their canoe. All three of them died on island. Stories were told that the skeletons were seen dancing over small rocks and screaming.
- C.
Convicts came there on a boat and killed each other. Nothing remained but their skulls. People thought they saw their skeletons glowing and dancing around a fire.
- 2.If I say no one's aboard, I mean she's ______________ (vocabulary word).
- 3.Why did you have to be careful walking around the shore of the island?
- A.
The rocks were very smooth and slick and if you fell in the ocean you would drown from the rip tides.
- B.
Skeletons would pretend to be a pizza guy and trick you into visiting their haunted cave.
- C.
The rocks were very smooth and slick and if you fell in the ocean sharks could eat you.
- 4.What did Brasque mean when he said the abandoned ship was a "Flying Dutchman"?
- A.
It was a ghost ship that sailed the seas until Judgement Day that supposely brought bad luck.
- B.
It was an evil, ghost ship haunted by Black Beard that killed people.
- C.
It was a bad ship that flew around the seas looking for people to kill or give bad luck to.
- 5.What happens if you harm a sea rat?
- A.
The rat will cry and then attack you and strip your flesh until it reaches your bones.
- B.
The rat will screech and then run away.
- C.
The rat will cry sharply and all his fellow rats will swarm all over you tearing your flesh until it's stripped from the bones.
- 6.Why did the men think they heard the rats screeching "Six skeletons, six skeltons"?
- A.
They were tired and their brains were tricking them
- B.
They hadn't had much food, water, or sleep in weeks and their brains were playing games with them at that point.
- C.
They had scizophrenia and were halucinating and hearing things that weren't there.
- 7.Where did the story take place?
- A.
French Guiana
- B.
An island of Florence Guiana
- C.
An island off the coast of French Guiana
- 8.What did they do to kill all the rats at the end?
- A.
Scorch them with hot water and then the sharks ate them
- B.
Use machine guns and bang bang bang dead rats everywhere
- C.
Bring a raft of meat and pour gasoline on it and set the rats on fire. The ones that were left the sharks ate.
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