Vocabulary Quiz for The Cay

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1. The rain sounded like bullets hitting on the dried palm frond roof. We ran out into it, shouting and letting the fresh water hit our bodies. It was cool and felt good. Timothy yelled that his __________________ was working and had made a large trough that would catch the rain.

2. Timothy had been cut to ribbons by the wind, which drove the rain and tiny grains of sand before it. It had ____________ his back and legs until there were very few places that weren't cut.

3. "B'gettin' his own self a lizzard, mebbe, mebbe," he answered, but there was something ___________ in his voice.

4. Timothy did not answer, but turned back, I guess, to watch the sea again. I could imagine those bloodshot eyes, set in that _____________(large), scarred black face, sweeping over the sea.

5. Feeling it everywhere under my feet, I knew that the cay was littered with ___________. I started cleaning the camp area, or what was left of it. I piled all the palm fronds, frayed by the wind, in one place; sticks of wet driftwood in another.

6. His feet touched the sand. In another few minutes, the raft ________________ and I knew it had grounded.

7. We finished dinner just as it was getting dark, and my father went outside to look at our house. He wanted to see if the _______________ curtains were working.

8. When the lifeboat had been swung out, the captain came down from the bridge. He was a small, wiry white-haired man and was acting the way I'd been told captains should act. He stood by the lifeboat in the fire's glow, very alert, giving orders to the crew. He was carrying a brief case and a ____________instrument I knew to be a sextant. On the other side of the ship, another lifeboat was being launched.

9. He said the ______ would have to close down within a day, and that meant precious gas and oil could not got to England, or to General Montgomery in the African desert.

10. But I knew that lurking in the tide pools were the _______________ sea urchins. Stepping on them invited a sharp spine in your foot, and Timothy had already warned me that, "dey veree poison, deg b'gibbin' you terrible pain."

11. Timothy chewed slowly on half a biscuit. "Today, young bahss, a ______________ (type of boat) will pass. I'd bet a jum on dat."

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