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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who portrays the pig in the ritual dance after the feast in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) Piggy.
(b) Roger.
(c) Simon.
(d) Ralph.

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

3. What part of his body gives Simon frequent pain as he makes his way through the jungle in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) His back.
(b) His tongue.
(c) His leg.
(d) His arm.

4. 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”?
(a) Jack.
(b) Robert.
(c) Sam.
(d) Roger.

5. What is the meaning of the word “interminable,” used in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) Near-sighted.
(b) Cruel.
(c) Unending.
(d) Far-sighted.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What ailment does Simon seemingly suffer from in Lord of the Flies?

5. What does Ralph tell Piggy is “the only thing to do” in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?

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