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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjective used in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air” to describe Simon means lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness?
(a) Diffident.
(b) Reverent.
(c) Opulent.
(d) Belligerent.

2. Who are described as “the smallest boys on the island” in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) Henry and Simon.
(b) Percival and Johnny.
(c) Jack and Ralph.
(d) Roger and Robert.

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. Which of the littluns has been left “in triumphant possession of the castles” after the others have run off in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) Henry.
(b) Simon.
(c) Johnny.
(d) James.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Ralph use in referring to a bath in the beginning of Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?

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

3. Which of the boys had, in his “other life… received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand,” according to the narrator in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?

4. When Jack suggests that “the castle” would make an excellent fort in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air,” this is an example of what literary technique?

5. One of the twins asks the other if he remembers what character from school in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?

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