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A Shipwrecked Sailor
-----by Daniel Defoe
1. Crusoe’s shipwrecked on: 30th
Nov 1659 during a violent storm in the sea.
2. Crusoe named the dismal island: The island
of Despair (in which he took shelter after his shipwrecked).
3. He feared most on the dismal island: He would
be devoured by a wild beast.
4. The rain continued with: The gusts
of wind.
5. He came on the desolate island: On 30th
Sep 1659.
6. Crusoe’s company/companions: Was/were
drowned after the shipwreck.
7. He pitched his tent: On a flat of green just
before hollow of a rising hill.
8. To make his tent: He used canvas.
9. He went over the fence: By taking
the help of a ladder.
10. He used a short ladder: To go over
the fence and drew it after him.
11. He kept a journal: In order to write down his every day’s routine.
12. He came on the dismal island: Without
food or clothing.
13. He swam to the wrecked ship: To bring
and rescue food and other necessary things for his survival (in parcels).
14. Hammock: It’s a kind of hanging made of
net.
15. The distance between the stakes, Crusoe placed into
the ground: Was six inches.
16. Crusoe drove the stakes around his tent: In a
semi-circle way.
17. He prepared the stakes: By cutting
woods collected by him from the island.
18. He felt that he would lose the measure of time: As he had
neither watch nor calendar(he thought so after spending ten or twelve days).
19. He witnessed a fine weather: Around 7th
Nov, after a continuous spell of rain.
20. He made small wooden boxes: In order
to keep his provisions dry from the rain.
21. He found a little plain: On the
side of a rising hill.
22. The hollow place looked like: The the entrance of a cave.
23. He emptied the contents of a bag of corns(poultry
feed): Outside the tent wall.
24. Most of the corns had been devoured: By rats.
25. He achieved the security of food and shelter: By June of
1660.
26. He developed a high fever: In June
1660.
27. He surveyed the island more particularly: On 25th
July 1660.
28. He succeeded in reaching his abode: By
consuming three days.
29. He couldn’t include all particulars to the journal: As he felt
the problem of want of ink.
30. The green stalks, discovered by Crusoe: Were
perfect barley.
31. Crusoe found meadows(with grape trees and melons): By the
bank of a brook.
32. On the the dismal island he spent a total: Three hundred and sixty-five days.
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