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

2. What does Simon whisper to Ralph as Ralph sits engulfed in staring at the sea in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) “I’m sure that your father is out there somewhere.”
(b) “You’ll get back to where you came from.”
(c) “Don’t worry. Jack won’t kill you.”
(d) “I’ve seen the Lord of the Flies.”

3. 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) Vicissitude.
(d) Declivity.

4. When the boys are trying to figure out how to light a fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain,” who says, “You make a bow and spin the arrow”?
(a) Roger.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Simon.
(d) Johnny.

5. Which “littlun” is unaccounted for at the end of Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Henry.
(b) The boy with the birthmark.
(c) The boy with the glasses.
(d) The boy with the wheelchair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” refers to a downward slope of ground?

2. The narrator says in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair,” “At midday the illusions merged into the sky and there the sun gazed down like” what?

3. Which of the littluns had run off crying after getting sand in his eye in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?

4. When the choir assumes guardianship of the fire, what group within them is assigned fire-duty during the first week in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

5. 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?

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