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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” is an adjective indicating that something is under the surface?
(a) Vicissitude.
(b) Obstinate.
(c) Declivity.
(d) Submerged.
2. What physical ailment does Piggy say he suffers from in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?
(a) Asthma.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Partial deafness.
3. One of the rules that Ralph establishes at the meeting in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain” is that no one may speak at the meetings unless he is holding what?
(a) The shell.
(b) The spear.
(c) The stone.
(d) The staff.
4. What literary technique is used in the following sentence from Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”? “When the sun sank, darkness dropped on the island like an extinguisher.”
(a) Dramatic irony.
(b) Literary allusion.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Simile.
5. 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”?
(a) The sopranos.
(b) The trebles.
(c) The altos.
(d) The basses.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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”?
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 are the boys from the choir wearing when they arrive on the beach in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?
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”?
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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