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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 used in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair” refers to a warlike or aggressively hostile nature or attitude?
(a) Mirage.
(b) Belligerence.
(c) Declivity.
(d) Vicissitude.

2. Of the three littluns that are described together playing by the sandcastles in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair,” who is described as “the biggest of them”?
(a) Henry.
(b) Percival.
(c) Simon.
(d) Maurice.

3. What weapons have Jack and the choir boys devised for hunting game on the island in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Guns.
(b) Bows and arrows.
(c) Blowguns.
(d) Spears.

4. What is the meaning of the word “ebullience,” used in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Belligerence.
(b) Luxuriance.
(c) Vicissitude.
(d) Exhilaration.

5. What ocean is described as surrounding the island in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) The Indian Ocean.
(b) The Atlantic Ocean.
(c) The Pacific Ocean.
(d) The Arctic Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What British slang word is used throughout the narrative to mean excellent or wonderful?

2. What does Simon hand to the littluns after they’ve followed him into the forest in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

3. What does the imagery surrounding the vast sea symbolize in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?

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

5. Who cuts his knee quite badly as the boys move along the rocks of the shoreline in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?

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