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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author uses the following sentence in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”: “The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings that fledged an outcrop of the pink rock.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Simile.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Personification.
(d) Literary allusion.

2. Which of the littluns has been left “in triumphant possession of the castles” after the others have run off in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) Henry.
(b) Johnny.
(c) James.
(d) Simon.

3. When Jack arrives at the huts, Ralph says that his hunters have been back at camp hours ago and have been doing what, in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Making sand castles.
(b) Sunbathing.
(c) Swimming.
(d) Building a boat.

4. What word used in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees” refers to the quality of being dulled or rounded at the extremity?
(a) Declivity.
(b) Belligerence.
(c) Obtuseness.
(d) Vicissitude.

5. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” refers to a downward slope of ground?
(a) Declivity.
(b) Simile.
(c) Exhilaration.
(d) Vicissitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the imagery surrounding the vast sea symbolize in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?

2. Who suggests the boys use Piggy’s glasses to start the fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

3. Who agrees to go back through the forest to the shelters and the littluns as the other boys head toward the mountain in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?

4. Who picks up Percival and carries him to a shelter in the beginning of Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?

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

(see the answer key)

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