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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy with the birthmark first call “the beastie” in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) “The snake-thing.”
(b) “The bear-thing.”
(c) “The bird-thing.”
(d) “The wolf-thing.”

2. What word used in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees” refers to the quality of being dulled or rounded at the extremity?
(a) Vicissitude.
(b) Declivity.
(c) Belligerence.
(d) Obtuseness.

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”?
(a) Bill.
(b) Piggy.
(c) Phil.
(d) Jack.

4. Who says that the boys can’t go start a fire on the mountain because they don’t have the spectacles in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Robert.
(c) Jack.
(d) Roger.

5. Simon makes an allusion to what English Queen in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Queen Elizabeth.
(b) Berengaria of Navarre.
(c) Queen Victoria.
(d) Eleanor of Rigby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary technique is used in the following sentence from Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”? “When the sun sank, darkness dropped on the island like an extinguisher.”

2. Who suggests the boys use Piggy’s glasses to start the fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

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

4. What color is the birthmark described as on the young boy who steps forward at the meeting in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

5. Who picks up Percival and carries him to a shelter in the beginning of Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?

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