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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the word “furtive” mean, as used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Personalized.
(b) Pointless.
(c) Savage.
(d) Stealthy.

2. Between what two characters is there a developing conflict that is foreshadowed in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Piggy and Johnny.
(b) Simon and Maurice.
(c) Jack and Ralph.
(d) Henry and Maurice.

3. In Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach,” the narrator states, “The silence of the forest was more oppressive than” what?
(a) “The heat.”
(b) “The isolation.”
(c) “The danger.”
(d) “The permanence.”

4. What adjective used in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air” to describe Simon means lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness?
(a) Opulent.
(b) Belligerent.
(c) Diffident.
(d) Reverent.

5. The “half-cave” that Ralph and Jack encounter while looking for the beast is said to contain “nothing more terrible than a clutch of” what, in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) “Rotten eggs.”
(b) “Rotten fruit.”
(c) “Spears.”
(d) “Baby pigs.”

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Of the twins, the narrator says in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air” that “they could never manage to do things sensibly if that meant” what?

3. 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”?

4. What is impaled on the stick that is referred as “The Lord of the Flies” in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?

5. As the big boys set out to hunt down the beast in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air,” the narrator states, “This day promised, like the others, to be a sunbath under” what?

(see the answer key)

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