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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

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) Swimsuits.
(b) High-collared uniforms.
(c) Black cloaks.
(d) Military uniforms.

2. When Ralph and Piggy arrive at the feast in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death,” which of the boys, “thinking that Ralph had turned to him accusingly, put down his gnawed bone with a nervous giggle”?
(a) Roger.
(b) Sam.
(c) Robert.
(d) Jack.

3. What do the twins and Piggy bring back to Ralph from the forest in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?
(a) Water.
(b) Fire.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Meat.

4. What does Simon say when he first speaks aloud in the jungle in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) “Why can’t I get home?”
(b) “Where is the Lord of the Flies?”
(c) “Where are Jack and the others?”
(d) “What else is there to do?”

5. Ralph lies in the shelter dreaming of feeding what farm animals when Sam and Eric arrive in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) Ponies.
(b) Ducks.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Chickens.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After the ritual in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death,” the narrator says, “Along the shoreward edge of the shallows the advancing clearness was full of strange, moonbeam-bodied creatures with” what?

3. What does Simon discover “the beast” to actually be in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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