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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” is an adjective indicating that something is under the surface?
(a) Obstinate.
(b) Submerged.
(c) Vicissitude.
(d) Declivity.

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?
(a) “The snake.”
(b) “The birds.”
(c) “The beast.”
(d) “The pig.”

3. What ocean is described as surrounding the island in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) The Atlantic Ocean.
(b) The Arctic Ocean.
(c) The Indian Ocean.
(d) The Pacific Ocean.

4. What British slang word is used throughout the narrative to mean excellent or wonderful?
(a) “Wizard.”
(b) “Doge.”
(c) “Rad.”
(d) “Masterly.”

5. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” refers to the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower?
(a) Sepals.
(b) Cultivars.
(c) Stamens.
(d) Plots.

6. As Simon attempts to speak during the assembly in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water,” the narrator states, “Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential” what?
(a) “Hope.”
(b) “Illness.”
(c) “Reverence.”
(d) “Beauty.”

7. What is the name of the littlun that first steps forward to talk about the beast during the assembly in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Simon.
(c) Phil.
(d) Johnny.

8. 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?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Simile.
(c) Personification.
(d) Literary allusion.

9. How many of the boys does Ralph say built the second shelter in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

10. The narrator says in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair,” “At midday the illusions merged into the sky and there the sun gazed down like” what?
(a) “A great bird.”
(b) “An angry eye.”
(c) “A loving overlord.”
(d) “A parent’s eye.”

11. Who suggests at the impromptu meeting in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air,” “Couldn’t we—kind of—stay here? Maybe the beast won’t come near us”?
(a) Phil.
(b) Bill.
(c) Jack.
(d) Piggy.

12. The word “leviathan” that is used in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air” refers to what?
(a) A spaceship.
(b) A political organization.
(c) A sea monster.
(d) A hawk.

13. What does the boy with the birthmark first call “the beastie” in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) “The wolf-thing.”
(b) “The bear-thing.”
(c) “The bird-thing.”
(d) “The snake-thing.”

14. As Ralph prepares for the assembly in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water” he considers to himself, “I can’t think. Not like” whom?
(a) “Piggy.”
(b) “Johnny.”
(c) “Simon.”
(d) “Jack.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the littluns had run off crying after getting sand in his eye in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?

2. Ralph tells Piggy in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell” that his father holds what position?

3. One of the twins asks the other if he remembers what character from school in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?

4. 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”?

5. Which of the littluns does Roger follow to the beach and begin throwing stones at in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?

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