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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjective used in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air” to describe Simon means lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness?
(a) Reverent.
(b) Diffident.
(c) Belligerent.
(d) Opulent.

2. Who is back at the shelters with the littluns as the other boys are on the hunt for the beast in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Simon.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Piggy.
(d) Ralph.

3. The narrator says of Ralph in the beginning of Chapter 5: “Beast from Water,” “He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching” what?
(a) “The road behind.”
(b) “One’s feet.”
(c) “The road ahead.”
(d) “One’s back.”

4. What is the meaning of the word “ebullience,” used in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Luxuriance.
(b) Vicissitude.
(c) Belligerence.
(d) Exhilaration.

5. After the ritual in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death,” the narrator says, “Along the shoreward edge of the shallows the advancing clearness was full of strange, moonbeam-bodied creatures with” what?
(a) “Eyes like opals.”
(b) “Fiery eyes.”
(c) “Mystical eyes.”
(d) “Hopeful eyes.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Piggy suggests to the boys that they rebuild the fire where, in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

2. What does Simon whisper to Ralph as Ralph sits engulfed in staring at the sea in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?

3. Jack claims at the meeting in the beginning of Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness” that Ralph “says things like” whom?

4. Who performs clownishly at the assembly in order to make the littluns stop wailing in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?

5. What color is the birthmark described as on the young boy who steps forward at the meeting in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

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