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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Piggy tells Ralph in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell” that he’s worn glasses since he was how old?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. Of the boys on the island, the narrator says in the beginning of Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair,” “They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that” what “was not necessary and therefore forgotten”?
(a) “Mankind.”
(b) “Faith.”
(c) “Sorrow.”
(d) “Hope.”

4. Who suggests that the boys hold a vote for the chief in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?
(a) Johnny.
(b) Henry.
(c) Simon.
(d) Roger.

5. 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) Simon.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Henry.
(d) Percival.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between what two characters is there a developing conflict that is foreshadowed in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

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

3. What ocean is described as surrounding the island in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?

4. What kind of shell do Ralph and Piggy discover on the beach in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?

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

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