The Cay Chapter 1 & 2
Testing your comprehension of the first two chapters of The Cay.
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Topics of this game:
- Read and evaluate the following sentence from Chapter 1. Like silent, hungry sharks that swim in the darkness, the German submarines arrived in the middle of the night. The author uses the simile in this sentence to
- Which line from the book shows that it is written in first person?
- The Cay can best be described as?
- How does the setting in Chapter 1 emphasize conflict in the story?
- Phillip and his best friend Henrik disobey their mothers by...
- Phillip and Henrik ________________________.
- Phillip's father came to Curacao to
- The people of Curacao planned...
- Why are the islands of Aruba and Curacao important and in danger of German attack?
- Which word completes the analogy? refinery is to gasoline as dairy farm is to ---
- If a student wants to find the location of Curacao, where should she or he look?
- Curacao's governor ordered that
- A cargo ship must be loaded at all times to float properly in the ocean. A ballast facility is used to obtain this. When the ship does not have cargo, rocks or water are loaded into the ballast tank to control buoyancy and stability. __________ was placed in the ballast tanks in the ships going to the Dutch West Indies. The ships would carry this to the islands, unload, then the ship would be filled with oil going to England and Africa.
- Phillip witnessed which of the following tragic events?
- Choose the event that occurs first.
- The conflict in the story results from
- The author wrote this book mostly to
- Choose the question that is not answered in Chapters 1 and 2.
- Choose the best title for Chapter 2.
- The Dutch never felt completely safe on the island of Curacao. They built forts at each vulnerable spot on the island. None of these Curacao forts could withstand a large-scale attack, but they were very effective against pirates. From this statement, the reader can imply that _________.
- When analyzing Phillips's mother, which words would best describe her?
- They were angry with the Chinese crews, and on the third day, my father said that mutiny charges had been placed against them. (Chapter 1) With that example, what would you propose that "mutiny" means?
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