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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word used Chapter 9: “A View to a Death” means crazy or insane?
(a) Declivity.
(b) Belligerence.
(c) Demented.
(d) Vicissitude.

2. What color eyes is Jack said to have in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Green.
(b) Brown.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

3. Who picks up Percival and carries him to a shelter in the beginning of Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) Ralph and Simon.
(b) Jack and Roger.
(c) Piggy and Simon.
(d) Robert and Henry.

4. The narrator notes when the feast begins to die down in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death,” “Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with” what?
(a) “The power of sacrifice.”
(b) “The threat of violence.”
(c) “The threat of rain.”
(d) “A solemn reverence.”

5. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” refers to a downward slope of ground?
(a) Vicissitude.
(b) Declivity.
(c) Simile.
(d) Exhilaration.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. In Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach,” the narrator states, “The silence of the forest was more oppressive than” what?

3. 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”?

4. 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?

5. Who is the only boy that is helping Ralph build the shelters in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

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