Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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chapter-003As to my boat, it was a very good one; and that he saw, and told me he would buy it of me for his ships use; and asked me what I would have for it?
chapter-003how was it possible I could get on shore?
chapter-002For what, Xury?
chapter-002I asked him why he would go?
chapter-002why I should not go, and he stay in the boat?
chapter-012I debated this very often with myself thus: How do I know what God Himself judges in this particular case?
chapter-009But all I could make use of was all that was valuable: I had enough to eat and supply my wants, and what was all the rest to me?
chapter-011And how was it possible a man should come there?
chapter-011What marks were there of any other footstep?
chapter-011Where was the vessel that brought them?
chapter-020So you kill them?
chapter-020Well, said I to him, Friday, what will you do now?
chapter-020Why do nt you shoot him?
chapter-020is this your making us laugh?
chapter-001A capful dyou call it?
chapter-001A storm, you fool you, replies he; do you call that a storm?
chapter-001Come, let us make a bowl of punch, and well forget all that; dye see what charming weather tis now?
chapter-001I warrant you were frighted, wernt you, last night, when it blew but a capful of wind?
chapter-001I was sincerely affected with this discourse, and, indeed, who could be otherwise?
chapter-001Pray, continues he, what are you; and on what account did you go to sea?
chapter-001Why, sir, said I, will you go to sea no more?
chapter-014and why I might not order myself and my business so that I might be able to go over thither, as they were to come to me?
chapter-014how far off the coast was from whence they came?
chapter-014what kind of boats they had?
chapter-014what they ventured over so far from home for?
chapter-018And where, sir, said I, is your belief of my being preserved here on purpose to save your life, which elevated you a little while ago?
chapter-018I asked him what he thought of the circumstances of my life, and whether a deliverance were not worth venturing for?
chapter-018Tom Smith answered immediately, Is that Robinson?
chapter-018Upon this Will Atkins cried out, For Gods sake, captain, give me quarter; what have I done?
chapter-018What is that?
chapter-018Where are they?
chapter-018Who must we yield to?
chapter-018Will they give us quarter, then?
chapter-004But I am cast on an island where I see no wild beasts to hurt me, as I saw on the coast of Africa; and what if I had been shipwrecked there?
chapter-004But what need I have been concerned at the tediousness of anything I had to do, seeing I had time enough to do it in?
chapter-004Did not you come, eleven of you in the boat?
chapter-004Is it better to be here or there?
chapter-004Where are the ten?
chapter-004Why were they not saved, and you lost?
chapter-004Why were you singled out?
chapter-004said I, aloud, what art thou good for?
chapter-010How came you here?
chapter-010Where are you, Robin Crusoe?
chapter-010Where are you?
chapter-010Where are you?
chapter-010Where have you been?
chapter-010Where have you been?
chapter-010and how did I come here?
chapter-010and where had I been?
chapter-010whither am going?
chapter-016Are you ready, Friday?
chapter-016Can you fight, Friday?
chapter-016He asked me again, Why you angry mad with Friday?what me done?
chapter-016He returns very quickWhat you send Friday away for?
chapter-016I go there, Friday?
chapter-016O bad!Whats the matter, Friday?
chapter-016What must I do with this?
chapter-016What must kill you for?
chapter-016Why, says I, Friday, did not you say you wished you were there?
chapter-016says I; what shall I do there?
chapter-016says he, repeating the words several times; why send Friday home away to my nation?
chapter-017All help is from heaven, sir, said I, but can you put a stranger in the way to help you?
chapter-017Have they any firearms?
chapter-017I asked him if either of them were the heads of the mutiny?
chapter-017I came as near them undiscovered as I could, and then, before any of them saw me, I called aloud to them in Spanish, What are ye, gentlemen?
chapter-017Is it a real man or an angel?
chapter-017Look you, sir, said I, if I venture upon your deliverance, are you willing to make two conditions with me?
chapter-017The poor man, with tears running down his face, and trembling, looking like one astonished, returned, Am I talking to God or man?
chapter-017Well, then, said I, leave the rest to me; I see they are all asleep; it is an easy thing to kill them all; but shall we rather take them prisoners?
chapter-017What is your case?
chapter-017Where are these brutes, your enemies?
chapter-017Why, Friday, says I, do you think they are going to eat them, then?
chapter-017said I; do you know where they are gone?
chapter-006And what am I, and all the other creatures wild and tame, human and brutal?
chapter-006And who is that?
chapter-006As I sat here some such thoughts as these occurred to me: What is this earth and sea, of which I have seen so much?
chapter-006Ask, why is it that thou wert not long ago destroyed?
chapter-006Dost thou ask, what have I done?
chapter-006Had I done my part?
chapter-006Have I not been delivered, and wonderfully too, from sicknessfrom the most distressed condition that could be, and that was so frightful to me?
chapter-006Immediately it followed: Why has God done this to me?
chapter-006Look back upon a dreadful misspent life, and ask thyself what thou hast not done?
chapter-006What have I done to be thus used?
chapter-006Whence are we?
chapter-006Whence is it produced?
chapter-006and what notice had I taken of it?
chapter-006dost thou ask what thou hast done?
chapter-006so I began to say, Can God Himself deliver me from this place?
chapter-015But, says he again, if God much stronger, much might as the wicked devil, why God no kill the devil, so make him no more do wicked?
chapter-015Do they carry them away and eat them, as these did?
chapter-015I asked him if the people who die in his country went away anywhere?
chapter-015I asked him then, if this old person had made all things, why did not all things worship him?
chapter-015If your nation beat them, how came you to be taken?
chapter-015Master. But why did not your side recover you from the hands of your enemies, then?
chapter-015Master. Do they come hither?
chapter-015Master. Have you been here with them?
chapter-015Master. How beat?
chapter-015Master. Well, Friday, and what does your nation do with the men they take?
chapter-015Master. Where do they carry them?
chapter-015So when he was in, I said to him, Well, now, Friday, shall we go to your nation?
chapter-015Well, says Friday, but you say God is so strong, so great; is He not much strong, much might as the devil?
chapter-015What would you do there?
chapter-015Would you turn wild again, eat mens flesh again, and be a savage as you were before?
chapter-015me no understandbut why not kill the devil now; not kill great ago?