1.) Describe the expository scene of the story.

2.) What does the map look like and how do Evans and Hooker interpret it?

3.) How did Evans and Hooker know about the treasure?

4.) Describe Evans’s dream.

5.) What do the two treasure hunters see when they walk towards the island?

6.) In what condition did the treasure hunters find the dead man?

7.) How did the treasure hunters try to carry gold ingots to the canoe?

8.) How were Evans and Hooker poisoned?

9.) How do you know the story is set on a tropical island?

10.) Why do you think Evan and Hooker took such a risk of finding the buried treasure on a desert island?

11.) Do you think the narrator of the story is racist? If yes, what made him feel superior to other races?

12.) What do you think is the moral of the story?

13.) Interpret the story as a mystery story.

14.) Treasure hunting is a favorable subject of children’s stories. Remember a treasure hunting story you read in your childhood and compare and contrast it with ‘The Treasure in the Forest.