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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the word “furtive” mean, as used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Stealthy.
(b) Savage.
(c) Personalized.
(d) Pointless.

2. The author uses the following sentence in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”: “The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings that fledged an outcrop of the pink rock.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Simile.
(b) Literary allusion.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Personification.

3. 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) Making sand castles.
(c) Sunbathing.
(d) Swimming.

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

5. What is the meaning of the word “ebullience,” used in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Vicissitude.
(b) Exhilaration.
(c) Luxuriance.
(d) Belligerence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of store does Piggy say his auntie used to run in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?

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

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

4. What color is Jack Merridew’s hair in the novel?

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

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