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

Multiple Choice 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”?
(a) Building a boat.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Sunbathing.
(d) Making sand castles.

2. Ralph tells Piggy in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell” that his father holds what position?
(a) Journalist.
(b) Magazine Editor.
(c) Commander of the Navy.
(d) Ambassador to Egypt.

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

4. Who leads the boys to the mountaintop in order to begin building a signal fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Johnny.
(b) Ralph.
(c) Henry.
(d) Jack.

5. From what perspective is the narrative of Lord of the Flies related?
(a) First person.
(b) Second person.
(c) Fourth person.
(d) Third person.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.”

2. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” is an adjective indicating that something is under the surface?

3. What physical ailment does Piggy say he suffers from in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?

4. The first boy that appears after Ralph blows the sounds on the shell is said to be about how old in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?

5. 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”?

(see the answer key)

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