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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who acts as Ralph’s witness that he hit the boar with the spear in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees,” saying “I saw you. Right bang on his snout—Wheee!”?
(a) Jack.
(b) Sam.
(c) Piggy.
(d) Maurice.

2. What word does Ralph use in referring to a bath in the beginning of Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Sepals.
(b) Frolic.
(c) Declivity.
(d) Wallow.

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

4. When Jack arrives at the huts, Ralph says that his hunters have been back at camp hours ago and have been doing what, in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Sunbathing.
(b) Making sand castles.
(c) Swimming.
(d) Building a boat.

5. What color is the cliff of rock that forms the side of the castle described as in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) White.
(b) Pink.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of the word “ebullience,” used in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

2. The author uses the following sentence in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”: “The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings that fledged an outcrop of the pink rock.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?

3. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” is an adjective indicating that something is under the surface?

4. Which of the boys comes up to Ralph at the castle to ask in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air,” “Why can’t we stay here for a bit?”

5. Who are described as “the smallest boys on the island” in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?

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