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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who cuts the sow’s neck with a knife in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?
(a) Ralph.
(b) Johnny.
(c) Simon.
(d) Jack.

3. The narrator states in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness,” “The greatest ideas are the” what?
(a) “Simplest.”
(b) “Hardest.”
(c) “Most derisive.”
(d) “Most complex.”

4. What is the meaning of the word “interminable,” used in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) Near-sighted.
(b) Unending.
(c) Far-sighted.
(d) Cruel.

5. Ralph lies in the shelter dreaming of feeding what farm animals when Sam and Eric arrive in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) Ponies.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Ducks.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

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

3. When does Piggy surmise the war will be over when he speaks at the assembly in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?

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. Which of the boys comes up to Ralph at the castle to ask in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air,” “Why can’t we stay here for a bit?”

(see the answer key)

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