The Cay
by Theodore Taylor
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Chapter 1
Questions
1. What arrives in the waters surrounding Wilemstad at the beginning of the novel?2. Why does the narrator's mother tell him he has to stay home?
3. Why did Phillip's dad bring the family to the island?
4. Why does Phillip's father say that they don't bomb the submarines?
Answers
1. German submarines appear.2. School has been canceled.
3. He could work for Royal Dutch Shell as an expert in the refineries.
4. They have no such weapons on the island.