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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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”?
(a) 2.
(b) 0.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

2. When the boys reenact the battle for the boar in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees,” which of the boys portrays the boar?
(a) Sam.
(b) Robert.
(c) Jack.
(d) Simon.

3. What is the first tactic that Jack’s tribe uses to flush Ralph from the thicket in Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters”?
(a) They light the thicket on fire.
(b) They shoot a gun into the thicket.
(c) They flood it with water.
(d) They hurl boulders into it.

4. When Ralph looks back to Castle Rock from the forest in the beginning of Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters,” who does he see “sitting on guard at the top of the cliff” with “a spear in his left hand and tossing up a pebble and catching it again with the right”?
(a) Simon.
(b) Roger.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Robert.

5. Who cuts his knee quite badly as the boys move along the rocks of the shoreline in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Roger.
(b) Ralph.
(c) Jack.
(d) Robert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say a great scab had formed on Ralph in the opening of Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?

2. When Ralph and Piggy arrive at the feast in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death,” which of the boys, “thinking that Ralph had turned to him accusingly, put down his gnawed bone with a nervous giggle”?

3. What colors of face paint is Jack described as wearing in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?

4. Jack tells his hunters at the meeting in the beginning of Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness” that Ralph said they are all what?

5. By what name does Ralph refer to Jack’s followers in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ironic about the denouement of Lord of the Flies?

2. How does Piggy die in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”? Who is responsible for his death?

3. What leads up to Simon’s death in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”? How does Simon die?

4. What does Jack announce at the meeting in the beginning of Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

5. What do Jack and Ralph argue about during their journey in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?

6. What is represented metaphorically through the killing of the sow in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

7. How is the death of Simon perceived by the boys in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”? What does this indicate about their characters?

8. Why does Ralph begin running for the beach and shelters in Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters”?

9. What is foreshadowed by the changing relationship between Jack and Ralph in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?

10. What conflicts arise when Jack arrives at the fort in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”?

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