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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees” means rich abundance or lushness?
(a) Diffidence.
(b) Luxuriance.
(c) Belligerence.
(d) Vicissitude.

2. Who is the only boy that is helping Ralph build the shelters in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Johnny.
(b) Simon.
(c) Jack.
(d) Henry.

3. The first boy that appears after Ralph blows the sounds on the shell is said to be about how old in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

4. What does Piggy say Sam and Eric are doing when Ralph arrives at the camp in the beginning of Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?
(a) Going to Jack’s camp.
(b) Hunting pigs.
(c) Gathering firewood.
(d) Gathering fruit.

5. 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) Swimming.
(c) Sunbathing.
(d) Building a boat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Ralph wheels on the hunters during the assembly in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water” and says “You can laugh! But I tell you the smoke is more important than” what?

3. What does the imagery surrounding the vast sea symbolize 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. Of the twins, the narrator says in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air” that “they could never manage to do things sensibly if that meant” what?

(see the answer key)

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