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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the boys from the choir wearing when they arrive on the beach in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?
(a) Military uniforms.
(b) Black cloaks.
(c) High-collared uniforms.
(d) Swimsuits.

2. What is Piggy’s answer when Ralph asks him in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell,” “What’s your father?”
(a) “My dad is a butcher.”
(b) “My dad is a carpenter.”
(c) “My dad left us.”
(d) “My dad’s dead.”

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) Robert.
(b) Roger.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Simon.

4. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” refers to the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower?
(a) Plots.
(b) Stamens.
(c) Sepals.
(d) Cultivars.

5. How old is Ralph said to be in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the boys in Lord of the Flies from originally?

2. Which of the littluns has been left “in triumphant possession of the castles” after the others have run off in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?

3. 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?

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

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”?

(see the answer key)

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