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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who leads the boys to the mountaintop in order to begin building a signal fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Henry.
(b) Johnny.
(c) Jack.
(d) Ralph.

2. During Piggy’s speech at the podium during the assembly he declares that “Life is” what, in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?
(a) “Hopeful.”
(b) “Meaningless.”
(c) “Futile.”
(d) “Scientific.”

3. Who is the only boy that is helping Ralph build the shelters in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Jack.
(b) Johnny.
(c) Henry.
(d) Simon.

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 butcher.”
(d) “My dad is a carpenter.”

5. Who suggests that the boys hold a vote for the chief in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?
(a) Simon.
(b) Henry.
(c) Johnny.
(d) Roger.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the choir assumes guardianship of the fire, what group within them is assigned fire-duty during the first week in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

2. Which of the littluns had run off crying after getting sand in his eye in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?

3. What physical ailment does Piggy say he suffers from in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?

4. 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”?

5. The narrator says in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair,” “At midday the illusions merged into the sky and there the sun gazed down like” what?

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