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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the only boy that is helping Ralph build the shelters in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Johnny.
(b) Simon.
(c) Henry.
(d) Jack.

2. When Jack suggests that “the castle” would make an excellent fort in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air,” this is an example of what literary technique?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Interrogation.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Religious allusion.

3. What happens to the body of the boy who is killed during the ritual in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) It is carried away by the tide.
(b) It is eaten by boars.
(c) It is impaled on a stick.
(d) It is eaten by vultures.

4. What color hair is Simon said to have in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Black.
(b) Brown.
(c) Blonde.
(d) Red.

5. After the ritual in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death,” the narrator says, “Along the shoreward edge of the shallows the advancing clearness was full of strange, moonbeam-bodied creatures with” what?
(a) “Eyes like opals.”
(b) “Mystical eyes.”
(c) “Hopeful eyes.”
(d) “Fiery eyes.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simon say when he first speaks aloud in the jungle in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?

2. What does the word “furtive” mean, as used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

3. What does Simon hand to the littluns after they’ve followed him into the forest in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

4. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” refers to the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower?

5. Which of the boys is killed during the ritual in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?

(see the answer key)

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