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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Piggy’s answer when Ralph asks him in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell,” “What’s your father?”
(a) “My dad is a carpenter.”
(b) “My dad left us.”
(c) “My dad’s dead.”
(d) “My dad is a butcher.”

3. Who leads the boys to the mountaintop in order to begin building a signal fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Jack.
(b) Johnny.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Henry.

4. 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.

5. What color are the pig droppings that Jack finds in the forest in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Solid black.
(b) Olive green.
(c) Dark brown.
(d) Reddish brown.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who suggests the boys use Piggy’s glasses to start the fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

3. 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”?

4. Who is the only boy who does not help gather firewood in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

5. 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?

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