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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach,” the narrator states, “The silence of the forest was more oppressive than” what?
(a) “The danger.”
(b) “The heat.”
(c) “The isolation.”
(d) “The permanence.”

2. What is the name of the littlun that the narrator describes crawling into a shelter and staying there for two days, “talking, singing, and crying, till they thought him batty and were faintly amused” in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) Johnny.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Henry.
(d) Percival.

3. Where are the boys in Lord of the Flies from originally?
(a) The United States.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Ireland.

4. What color is the birthmark described as on the young boy who steps forward at the meeting in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Mulberry-colored.
(b) Violet-colored.
(c) Black-colored.
(d) Crimson-colored.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are the pig droppings that Jack finds in the forest in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

2. The first boy that appears after Ralph blows the sounds on the shell is said to be about how old in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?

3. Who is described in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair” as “the only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow”?

4. Which “littlun” is unaccounted for at the end of Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

5. 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”?

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