1. What kinds of wild animals have the boys discovered living on the island in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Foxes.
(b) Turkeys.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Deer.

2. Who says that the boys can’t go start a fire on the mountain because they don’t have the spectacles in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Jack.
(b) Roger.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Robert.

3. What does Simon hand to the littluns after they’ve followed him into the forest in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Spears.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Candy.
(d) Meat.

4. What color eyes is Jack said to have in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown.
(d) Green.

5. Who picks up Percival and carries him to a shelter in the beginning of Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) Piggy and Simon.
(b) Robert and Henry.
(c) Ralph and Simon.
(d) Jack and Roger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the boys on the island, the narrator says in the beginning of Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair,” “They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that” what “was not necessary and therefore forgotten”?

2. Simon makes an allusion to what English Queen in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?

3. When the boys reenact the battle for the boar in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees,” which of the boys portrays the boar?

4. What is the meaning of the word “ebullience,” used in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

5. What color hair is Simon said to have in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

(see the answer key)

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