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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color hair is Simon said to have in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Red.
(b) Blonde.
(c) Brown.
(d) Black.

2. 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”?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Robert.
(c) Simon.
(d) Roger.

3. When Jack arrives at the huts, Ralph says that his hunters have been back at camp hours ago and have been doing what, in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Swimming.
(b) Sunbathing.
(c) Making sand castles.
(d) Building a boat.

4. Who suggests the boys use Piggy’s glasses to start the fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Piggy.
(b) Henry.
(c) Jack.
(d) Johnny.

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?
(a) Literary allusion.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Personification.
(d) Simile.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” refers to the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower?

3. Who is the only boy who does not help gather firewood in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

4. What does the word “furtive” mean, as used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

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

(see the answer key)

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