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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees” means rich abundance or lushness?
(a) Diffidence.
(b) Luxuriance.
(c) Vicissitude.
(d) Belligerence.

2. One of the twins asks the other if he remembers what character from school in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) “Old Gremlin.”
(b) “Old Wizard.”
(c) “Old Potters.”
(d) “Old Waxy.”

3. 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) Blue.
(d) Green.

4. What kinds of wild animals have the boys discovered living on the island in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Deer.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Foxes.
(d) Turkeys.

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?
(a) “A red dome.”
(b) “A violent sky.”
(c) “A parched sky.”
(d) “A blue dome.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What color eyes is Jack said to have in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

2. What color hair is Simon said to have in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

3. Which of the boys are thoughtful enough to bring leaves for the signal fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

4. 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?

5. Of the boys on the island, the narrator says in the beginning of Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair,” “They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that” what “was not necessary and therefore forgotten”?

(see the answer key)

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