Treasure Island Book Quiz
Eight multiple-choice questions on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883) — plot, characters and the moments everyone quotes. Two minutes, instant score, every answer explained below. For the full mixed-classics version, take the original book quiz — 15 questions across the whole canon.
All 8 questions and answers
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- Who leaves the sea chest map at the Admiral Benbow? — Billy Bones, the old buccaneer. The captain with the scar, waiting for the crew that finally comes for him.
- What is the 'black spot'? — A verdict of death passed to a pirate by his crew. A blackened paper given to Billy Bones — and later, fatally, to Silver.
- What job does Long John Silver take on the Hispaniola? — Ship's cook. The one-legged cook with the parrot Captain Flint — friendly, capable, and planning mutiny.
- How does Jim discover the planned mutiny? — He hides in the apple barrel and hears Silver recruit the crew. The apple barrel scene — the most stolen plot device in adventure fiction.
- Who was Captain Flint to the treasure? — The pirate who buried it; his old crew now signs on to recover it. Flint's treasure, Flint's map, Flint's men — including Silver, his quartermaster.
- What does Jim do on the island that changes the campaign? — He finds Ben Gunn, marooned three years, who has already moved the treasure. The strange, cheese-loving castaway who 'found the treasure by means of a bit of luck.'
- How does the Hispaniola end up anchored badly for the crew? — Jim cuts the cable and grounds her on the east coast. Jim's wild solo trip — coracle, cut rope, beached ship, and the pirate whose life he spares.
- What becomes of Long John Silver? — He escapes with a bag of money and is never seen again. He talks his way out, slips away at a port — the villain who wins, and readers are glad.
About Treasure Island
A map, a one-legged cook, and a boy in the wrong tavern: Jim Hawkins sails for Skeleton Island and into the company of Long John Silver — the charming villain every later pirate is copied from. The template of the adventure novel. The novel runs about 66,000 words (roughly 292 pages in a standard paperback) — about 4 hours and 37 minutes of reading at an average pace. Before you commit, see the full breakdown in how long it takes to read Treasure Island or calculate reading time for any other book.
Easy — brisk Victorian adventure prose; the original pirate story and still the best. If you get 6 or more of the eight questions right, the book clearly stuck.
What this quiz covers
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island sits in our epic, adventure & fantasy shelf, and the eight questions follow the book the way a reader experiences it: how the story opens, the turn in the middle, the characters who carry it, and the ending people still argue about. You will not be asked for page numbers or publication trivia — but three or four questions are built to separate people who read the book from people who read a summary. If a question stumps you, that gap is your reading list talking.
Fair warning for the ambitious: readers who clear this quiz often move straight to the reading-time breakdown for Treasure Island to plan the reread, then test the rest of their shelf against the mixed classic literature quiz.
More book quizzes
The Odyssey quiz, Moby-Dick quiz, Don Quixote quiz, Alice in Wonderland quiz, 1984 quiz, Animal Farm quiz, Brave New World quiz — or browse every book quiz on the site. For scale, Treasure Island is the 86th longest of the 133 classics timed here — shorter than The Adventures of Tom Sawyer but longer than The Fault in Our Stars.
Doing the whole author? Our Robert Louis Stevenson books in order guide lists every book with the best entry point.
Frequently asked questions
How many questions are in the Treasure Island quiz?
Eight multiple-choice questions covering Robert Louis Stevenson's plot, characters and most famous moments. The quiz takes about two minutes and your score is instant.
Is the Treasure Island book quiz free?
Yes — no signup, no email, nothing to install. Answer the eight questions and get your score immediately.
What score should I aim for?
8/8 means you know the book cold; 6+ is a solid score. Below 4, the book is calling you back for a reread.
Is the Treasure Island quiz hard?
Easy — brisk Victorian adventure prose; the original pirate story and still the best. The questions themselves stick to famous, load-bearing moments — the scenes and lines the book is remembered for — so a genuine read usually scores 6+.
How long is the Treasure Island reading itself?
About 66,000 words — roughly 292 pages, or about 4 hours and 37 minutes at an average pace. The full pace breakdown is in how long it takes to read Treasure Island. It runs 34 chapters, averaging 1,941 words each; see the book-count guide for its full structure.