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K E Y T O T H E E X E R C I S E S
Daniel Defoe
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Robinson
Crusoe
a. When did the ship leave? 5. drug
b. When did a hurricane hit their 6. was gone
ship?
c. What was the weather like after 12 Part Two
days?
d. What happened while sailing to Page 53 – exercise 1
Barbados? A. 2 B. extra C. 6 D. 4 E. 0
e. Why did the boat turn over? F. 7 G. 5 H. 1 I. 3
f. What carried Robinson towards
KEY TO THE EXERCISES Page 53 – exercise 2
the shore?
AND EXIT TEST g. Where did Robinson lie down? a. Because he had just escaped death
by drowning.
Daniel Defoe and his World Page 30 – exercise 2 Page 34 – exercise 6 b. Because he realised that he was
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. B 5. D 6. A 7. B 1. His 2. when 3. During alone without food, clothing or
Page 12 – exercise 1 4. one 5. by 6. how 7. another shelter.
1. C 2. A 3. D 4. B 5. B Page 32 – exercise 3
8. time 9. After 10. them c. If they had not left the ship.
6. A 7. B 8. B 9. C a. He was born in York. 11. In 12. became 13. later d. He swam to the ship.
b. From Hull. 14. there 15. to e. That he was on an island.
Before reading c. The ship sank because of a storm. f. He built a raft.
d. Robinson went to London. The Slave Trade g. Food, clothes, tools, guns, bullets,
Page 14 – exercise 1 e. Robinson signed up for a voyage prayer books and a Bible.
Open answers. to Africa. Page 38 – exercise 1 h. He started taking pieces of the
f. Yes, it was. ship itself.
Page 14 – exercise 2 g. The ship was attacked by the a. commodity
Turks. b. lucrative Page 54 – exercise 3
1. York c. African slaves
2. law h. He was taken to the port of Sallee. a. That it is a place where no
i. He was made a slave. d. survived / journey / plantation
3. desperate or very fortunate ‘civilised’ human beings have ever
j. While fishing, Robinson pushed e. colonies / east
4. middle set foot. Today we would say that
Ismael into the water and sailed f. triangular / sugar cane / rum
5. become a soldier the island was a place
with Xury to the African coast. g. tobacco / cotton / South
6. begin another profession uncontaminated by man. For
h. abolished
Robinson, though, it was a place
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Part One that provided all the raw materials
a. All Saints’ Bay, Brazil Before reading
he would need to create his own
Page 30 – exercise 1 b. a sugar planter life.
Page 39 – exercise 1
c. because he needed help b. He is all alone on an island that is
a. remained / life Open answer.
d. to ask a friend to send him some naturally rich in food and water - a
b. desperate / lucky went abroad The purpose of this activity is to get
money kind of Garden of Eden.
c. middle-state / happy / peace the students to use some of the
e. in the form of English goods c. The idea of a primitive and
d. wished / poor words they will find while reading.
f. he bought himself a negro slave isolated island has been used by
e. rich / greatest
g. four years many directors. King Kong, both
f. quietness / conditions Page 39 – exercise 2
h. there were very few and cost a lot the new and old versions, and the
g. sea 1. saving his life
of money various Jurassic Park films are
h. be / follow / suggestions 2. far away the ship was
i. to go with them to Africa to buy good examples and Cast Away by
slaves 3. fresh water R. Zeneck with T. Hanks.

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a. It is something that attracts us and 10. does God choose to ruin c. saw / thought 1. I felt like the lord of the island.
enchains us like a drug, but, in the d. made 2. To protect myself from the sun.
Page 56 – exercise 8 e. felt
end, it has no real worth of its 3. In order to escape.
own. Robinson sees this because a. cave b. store c. wooden f. was 4. I filled my time with work and the
on a deserted island a hammer has d. supply e. starvation g. did not sleep praise of God.
much more value than a sack of f. sheltered g. gunpowder h. killed 5. I found a man’s footprint.
gold. i. dreamt (dreamed) / wanted 6. I was terrified.
Page 57 – exercise 9 j. awoke
b. He had worked as a merchant and 7. I went home and hid myself.
then become bankrupt. For him 1. A 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. A 6. D
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then, the well-being derived from 7. B 8. D 9. C 10. A 11. C 12. D
money was an illusion, just like a. 3 b. 7 c. 2 d. 4 e. 1 A.
the well-being induced by a drug. Shipwrecks! f. 8 g. 6 h. 5 b. If Robinson had been satisfied
c. He probably thought that he might Page 72 – exercise 3 with the middle state he would
be rescued and then the money Page 60 – exercise 1 have listened to his father’s
Possible answer:
would be useful. a. Shipwrecks and pirate attacks advice.
This is how I finally understood that
b. Physical hardships: malnutrition, c. If he had listened to his father’s
Page 54 – exercise 5 deliverance from sin is a far greater
scurvy, illness, serious injuries advice, he would not have gone to
blessing than deliverance from
Negative Aspects Positive Aspects and amputation of an arm or limb sea with a friend.
misery. My father begged me to live a
– he had no means of – but there were no wild by the ship’s surgeon d. If he had not gone to sea with a
peaceful life at home but I had to
defending himself beasts on the island. Psychological hardships: being far friend he would not been aboard
travel. During my first two sea
– he had no clothes – but the weather was from home, not being able to see the ship during a terrible storm.
hot. voyages there were terrible storms. At
land for months at a time and e. If he had not been aboard a ship
first, of course, I prayed to God to
– he had no soul to – but he had been able to living in extremely crowded and during a terrible storm he would
speak to supply himself with save me, and he did. Still, once I was
many things. often dirty living quarters not have thought God was
safe I did not think about God
– he felt singled out to – but he hoped God
c. marine archaeologists punishing him.
anymore or my sins. Then, while I
lead would save him. d. Suggested answer: The sea is very f. If he had not thought that God was
this miserable life was on a ship off the coast of Africa, I
rough. There is a shipwreck. The punishing him he would not have
was captured and sold into slavery,
– he was alone – but he was not starving. masts of the ship are broken due to promised God to return to his
and again I managed to survive this
– he was stranded on – but he was alive. the violence of the storm. Some father.
an island tragedy. Then I was the sole survivor
people are in a life boat trying to B.
of a shipwreck. Once on the island I
reach shore. 2. I - If Robinson had not found guns
Page 55 – exercise 6 was, for a moment, grateful to God,
e. The Titanic on the boat he could not have
but, as always, once the physical
Open answer. hunted on the island.
Page 61 – exercise 2 danger had passed I no longer thought
3. E - If Robinson had not decided to
Page 55 – exercise 7 of God. For me everything happened
1. painters 2. Spanish go to Africa he would not have
by chance and not because God
1. to look for 3. probably 4. twentieth been captured by the Turks.
willed it. Even an earthquake could
2. had not left 5. hardship 6. illness 7. injuries 4. B - If Robinson had not fallen ill
not make me understand the error of
3. would leave it 8. suffering 9. extremely 10. dirty he would never have truly
my ways. It was only a terrible illness
4. that somebody would rescue 11. archaeologists 12. knowledge repented.
which made me finally realise that I
5. wanted me to spend 5. D - If Robinson had encountered
Part Three had to leave my sinful past behind
6. don’t have anything to wild beasts on the island he would
and begin to think of God. I had
7. because I had worked hard have been eaten alive.
Page 71 – exercise 1 finally understood what the most
8. gun for hunting or defending 6. C - If Robinson had not drunk rum
a. shook important kind of deliverance was.

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with his friend, he would have
remembered his promise to God.
7. H - If Robinson had kept his trust
in God, he would not have been
afraid when he saw the human
footprints.
8. A - If Robinson had been satisfied
with his life in Brazil, he would
not have decided to go to Africa a
second time.
9. G - If Robinson had returned to
Brazil with slaves he would have
made a lot of money.
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1. so 2. afterwards 3. but
4. then 5. Although 6. After
7. and 8. because 9.However
10. As a result 11. because
12. also 13. so 14. When
Mercantilism:
Trade, Wealth and Colonies
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a. W – He said that trade generated
wealth.
b. R
c. R
d. DS
e. R
f. W – He was a frequent visitor to
the coffee houses.
g. W – Almost everybody could
afford it.
h. R
i. R
j. R
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Open answer.
Before reading
Page 82 – exercise 1
The answers can be checked by
reading the text.
Page 83 – exercise 2
Open answer.
Part Four
Page 96 – exercise 1
1. part = side (noun)
desired = was willing (verb)
action = act (noun)
without clothes = naked
(adjective)
habits = customs (noun)
started = began (verb)
persons = people (noun)
damage = harm (noun)
presently = at present (adverb)
right = just (adjective)
beach = shore (noun)
but = except (preposition)
Page 96 – exercise 2
a. How long had Robinson been
living on the island?
b. What could his parrot say? /
What did he teach his parrot to
say?
c. How long did the parrot stay with
him?
d. When did Robinson see a fire on
the shore?
e. How many savages were there?
f. When did they leave the island?
g. What did Robinson see on the
beach?
h. How did Robinson feel?
i. What did he want to do?
Page 97 – exercise 3 attack the savages because they had
1. D 2. B 3. C 4. D not done anything to him. I believe
5. B 6. A 7. B 8. B that he was right. First, he felt that
only God can judge a whole nation,
Page 98 – exercise 4 and second Robinson could see that
What Robinson dreamt Robinson dreamt he saw he would have to keep killing
of one night some savages on the beach ‘savages’ once he began. In the end,
with a prisoner. he would be no better than the
Where the prisoner The prisoner ran to the thick Spaniards who had massacred the
ran woods in front of Robinson's
house. Native Americans. It is especially
What the prisoner The prisoner asked Robinson interesting that Robinson realises that
asked Robinson to help him. different cultures have different
How Robinson felt Robinson felt happy. standards, and that it is not up to him
when he awoke to decide who is right or wrong. Even
What Robinson saw Robinson saw five canoes on if Robinson reasons with the ideas of
one morning the shore.
an English Protestant of more than
What the savages did They started cutting him up
to one prisoner for their feast. three hundred years ago, his ideas are
What the other The other prisoner began to still relevant today, especially in our
prisoner did run towards Robinson's cities where we can encounter people
house.
from all over the world with customs
What one of the One of the followers stopped
different from our own.
followers did chasing the prisoner because
he could not swim and so
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couldn't cross the river.
What Robinson did to Robinson hit one of them 1. had been 2. had never seen
the other followers with his gun and shot the
other. 3. saw 4. had been 5. thanked
6. thought 7. realised
Page 99 – exercise 5 8. did not attack 9. had 10. found
11. had seen 12. had left
a. true
13. thought 14. was 15. was
b. false – The savage didn’t hurt
16. were 17. came 18. killed
Robinson.
19. managed 20. saved 21. took
c. true
22. had dreamt 23. called
d. false – Robinson didn’t
24. had saved 25. became
understand the savage’s words.
e. false – The savage used Robinson’s
sword. Solitude and Survivors
f. false – The savage buried the in Literature
bodies in the sand.
g. false – The savage was about Page 104 – exercise 1
twenty-six years old.
A desert island or the heart of a jungle
h. true
can symbolise a new start in life, a
prison without bars, a longed-for
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paradise or a dreaded inferno.
Possible answer:
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Sole Companion a. Robinson thinks they are a. In 1715 the Spanish captain Juan 1. A 2. B 3. C 4. C
Author Book, Survivor (when applicable) cunning. Ubilla hid an extraordinary 5. A 6. C 7. B 8. D
Defoe
Robinson Robinson Friday b. To give them time to repent and treasure of Inca gold on the island.
Crusoe Crusoe be forgiven. b. Jacob L’Hermite was a terrible Page 135 – exercise 3
Verne The Mysterious Cyrus Smith Nab
c. Because, by teaching Friday, he French pirate who settled on the 1. 27 2. 3 3. white 4. attack
Island learns things he did not know bay called Puerto Frances. 5. Spaniard 6. killed 7. escaped
Conrad Heart of Mr Kuryz
before. c. Captain Woodes Rogers wrote A 8. canoe 9. cried 10. danced
Darkness d. Friday remembered that a boat Cruising Voyage around the World, 11. father 12. pagan 13. Catholic
Tournier
Vendredi ou la Robinson Vendredi
like that had come to his nation the true story of the adventures of 14. send 15. mainland 16. ship
vie sauvage Crusoe once. the Scottish sailor, Selkirk. 17. English 18. prisoners
e. Because they hadn’t been caught d. Alexander Selkirk was a Scottish 19. captain 20. rebelled 21. island
Page 104 – exercise 3 in battle. sailor who asked to be left on the 22. leaders 23. begged 24. left
William Shakespeare confronted this f. He’d teach his people how to desert island of Juan Fernandez in 25. 28 26. hat 27. money 28. 35
theme in his play The Tempest and pray to God and not to eat men. 1704 following a quarrel with the
he seemed to be more of a pessimist g. Because Friday thought that captain of the ship. He lived on Page 136 – exercise 4
than an optimist. Robinson would send him away. the island until 1709.
h. They decided to stay together and
they built a boat for the two of Page 121 – exercise 3
Before reading
them. Open answer.
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Page 115 – exercise 3
Open answer. Before reading
1. G 2. C 3. D 4. A 5. E 6. F
Page 105 – exercise 2 Page 122 – exercise 1
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1. not to kill him Open answer.
a. let me go fishing
2. make bread
b. made Robinson become Page 122 – exercise 2
3. love him
c. get him to lead
4. a child 1. B 2. B 3. C 4. C 5. A Page 137 – exercise 5
d. made Robinson remember / made
5. were like Robinson
him forget hurricane hammock cannibal
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Page 114 – exercise 1 i. makes (or made) him clean Robinson ran towards to pursue the savages
a canoe
1. Who made the sea, the earth, the j. will let us use Insert the title of this book in the
Friday reacted in a strange because the creature was
hills and the woods? way at seeing the creature his father Search.
2. What happens to the people who Robinson and Friday built for the Spaniard and Friday's Open the page for Robinson Crusoe.
die in your country?
Juan Fernandez: a tent father
Click on the project link symbol @
3. Do all the people you eat go to Robinson Crusoe’s Island Robinson allowed freedom
of religion on the island
because one of them was
Catholic, one was Protestant to find a list of suggested Web sites.
Benamuckee too? and one Pagan
Page 120 – exercise 1 More barley and rice were to have enough food for when
4. When does Benamuckee listen to
planted the other people from the
people? 1. Scottish 2. rescued 3. archipelago mainland arrived
5. Is everyone allowed to speak to 4. Pacific 5. west 6. pirates Friday’s father and the to bring back the other white
Benamuckee? 7. Chile 8. rare 9. plane or boat Spaniard left for the mainland people.

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Contexts Interpretation 1 desperate when he realises his

terrible situation. However, he
1 Write a continuous passage 3 Say: a. Daniel Defoe. soon becomes very enterprising:
b. London in 1660. he saves what he can from the
stating:
a. what kind of man you think c. He was brought up in a Dissenting ship wreck and makes himself a
a. who Robinson Crusoe was Robinson is (pessimistic/ or Puritan family. He was a house.
written by; optimistic, active/passive, merchant and initially had f. Human company.
fatalistic, cruel, generous... success, but became bankrupt in g. After about 10 months on the
b. where and when he was born; 1692 after some risky business
etc.); island. His days are full of work
c. what you remember about his ventures. After this he became and prayer.
life; b. if he may be considered a more interested in journalism and
forerunner of modern began publishing political 3
d. what other works he wrote; pamphlets and a political
entrepreneurs;
newspaper, The Review. He a. Optimistic and active.
e. what the period he lived in
c. how much religious spirit is published Robinson Crusoe in b. Yes, he is very enterprising.
was characterised by. c. The theme of religion runs
present in the novel and how 1719 and it was immediately
religious Robinson himself is; successful. through the whole novel. At the
Comprehension d. His other works include: The beginning Robinson is not

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d. how he behaves to savages particularly religious but this
Farther Adventures of Robinson
2 In a continuous passage and natives; changes gradually until a lot of his
Crusoe, Captain Singleton Moll
explain: e. what the main themes of the Flanders and Roxana. time is taken up with prayer and
story are and if there is a final e. He lived in a pre-industrial society bible reading.
a. what family Robinson d. His behaviour can be compared to
message. that was beginning to expand
belonged to; rapidly. that of the imperial British.
b. why he went to sea; Although the island is not his, he
Key sentences behaves as if he is the master of
c. how many voyages he made 2
the island and superior to the
before he was shipwrecked; 4 Who said ...? a. A merchant family. natives.
b. Because it was his only desire. e. The main themes are: religion and
d. what were the most striking a. It was a terrible storm. c. 3 colonisation.
experiences he had during b. Do you call that a storm? ... d. During his first voyage there were
these voyages and what he That was nothing. Let’s drink several bad storms and Robinson 4
learnt from them; some rum and forget about it. was very sick and frightened. His
second voyage was very successful a. Robinson
e. how he reacted to being c. Young man, you should never b. Robinson’s friend
and he made some money. His
stranded on a desert island; go to sea again. third voyage finished badly as c. The captain of the ship on
f. what he mainly missed there; they were taken prisoner by Robinson’s first voyage
d. Poor Robinson Crusoe!
Turkish pirates. d. Robinson
g. when he felt quite satisfied e. Why do you want to send me e. At the beginning he was thankful e. Friday
and contented. away? Do not send me away! to God for having survived the f. Robinson
It is better to kill me. shipwreck. Then he feels
f. if I save you, sir ... you must
promise to accept me as your

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