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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The narrator says of Ralph in the beginning of Chapter 5: “Beast from Water,” “He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching” what?
(a) “One’s feet.”
(b) “One’s back.”
(c) “The road behind.”
(d) “The road ahead.”
2. Who performs clownishly at the assembly in order to make the littluns stop wailing in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?
(a) Piggy.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Jack.
(d) Ralph.
3. During Piggy’s speech at the podium during the assembly he declares that “Life is” what, in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?
(a) “Futile.”
(b) “Hopeful.”
(c) “Scientific.”
(d) “Meaningless.”
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.”
(a) Dramatic irony.
(b) Simile.
(c) Literary allusion.
(d) Onomatopoeia.
5. Of the boys on the island, the narrator says in the beginning of Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair,” “They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that” what “was not necessary and therefore forgotten”?
(a) “Sorrow.”
(b) “Mankind.”
(c) “Hope.”
(d) “Faith.”
Short Answer Questions
1. Who stands up at the assembly and claims he was alone in the forest at night in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?
2. Who are described as “the smallest boys on the island” in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
3. What ocean is described as surrounding the island in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
4. Who is the only boy who does not help gather firewood in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
5. What does Jack ask Ralph for when he arrives at the camp in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
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