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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the cliff of rock that forms the side of the castle described as in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) Pink.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

2. What does Simon discover “the beast” to actually be in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) A dead pilot attached to a parachute.
(b) A part of a plane engine.
(c) A dead water buffalo.
(d) A severed pig’s head impaled on a stick.

3. When the choir assumes guardianship of the fire, what group within them is assigned fire-duty during the first week in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) The basses.
(b) The sopranos.
(c) The trebles.
(d) The altos.

4. One of the twins asks the other if he remembers what character from school in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) “Old Wizard.”
(b) “Old Gremlin.”
(c) “Old Potters.”
(d) “Old Waxy.”

5. What does the word “vicissitude” mean, as used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) A gathering of people.
(b) A change or variation.
(c) A betrayal of principles.
(d) Savagery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of the twins that appear on the beach in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?

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

3. 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”?

4. 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”?

5. How many of the boys raise their hands when Jack demands of them, “Who thinks Ralph oughtn’t to be chief?” in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

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