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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the boys had, in his “other life… received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand,” according to the narrator in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) Robert.
(b) Roger.
(c) Simon.
(d) Maurice.

2. What does Simon whisper to Ralph as Ralph sits engulfed in staring at the sea in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) “You’ll get back to where you came from.”
(b) “I’m sure that your father is out there somewhere.”
(c) “Don’t worry. Jack won’t kill you.”
(d) “I’ve seen the Lord of the Flies.”

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

4. 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) Literary allusion.
(c) Personification.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

5. Of the three littluns that are described together playing by the sandcastles in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair,” who is described as “the biggest of them”?
(a) Henry.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Percival.
(d) Simon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” is an adjective indicating that something is under the surface?

2. Which of the boys are thoughtful enough to bring leaves for the signal fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

3. What weapons have Jack and the choir boys devised for hunting game on the island in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

4. In Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach,” the narrator states, “The silence of the forest was more oppressive than” what?

5. 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”?

(see the answer key)

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