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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 used in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair” refers to a warlike or aggressively hostile nature or attitude?
(a) Mirage.
(b) Declivity.
(c) Vicissitude.
(d) Belligerence.

2. When does Piggy surmise the war will be over when he speaks at the assembly in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?
(a) A year or two.
(b) In a few months.
(c) Tomorrow or the next day.
(d) Three or four years.

3. What is the name of the littlun that first steps forward to talk about the beast during the assembly in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?
(a) Simon.
(b) Johnny.
(c) Phil.
(d) Maurice.

4. Of the twins, the narrator says in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air” that “they could never manage to do things sensibly if that meant” what?
(a) “Working toward a goal.”
(b) “Being patient.”
(c) “Taking orders.”
(d) “Acting independently.”

5. 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) Simon.
(c) Roger.
(d) Maurice.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the big boys set out to hunt down the beast in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air,” the narrator states, “This day promised, like the others, to be a sunbath under” what?

2. Who lights the new fire in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

3. How are the hunters able to find the wounded sow in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

4. 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.”

5. In the reenactment of the pig killing in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness,” who portrays the sow?

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