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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Ralph use in referring to a bath in the beginning of Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Sepals.
(b) Frolic.
(c) Wallow.
(d) Declivity.

2. Who is back at the shelters with the littluns as the other boys are on the hunt for the beast in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Ralph.
(b) Piggy.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Simon.

3. What is Percival’s full name that he states in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?
(a) Percival James Anderson.
(b) Percival Henry Waterson.
(c) Percival William Jackson.
(d) Percival Wemys Madison.

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

5. What word from Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses” means to make gestures in an excited manner?
(a) Luxuriate.
(b) Gesticulate.
(c) Pontificate
(d) Revere.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness,” “The greatest ideas are the” what?

2. Which of the older boys leads the way through the sand castles, kicking them over and laughing, in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?

3. Who leads the boys to the mountaintop in order to begin building a signal fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

4. Who suggests the boys use Piggy’s glasses to start the fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

5. What word used in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees” refers to the quality of being dulled or rounded at the extremity?

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