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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which “littlun” is unaccounted for at the end of Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) The boy with the birthmark.
(b) Henry.
(c) The boy with the wheelchair.
(d) The boy with the glasses.

2. Which of the older boys leads the way through the sand castles, kicking them over and laughing, in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) Roger.
(b) Simon.
(c) Robert.
(d) Maurice.

3. 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) Simile.
(b) Literary allusion.
(c) Dramatic irony.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

4. Who performs clownishly at the assembly in order to make the littluns stop wailing in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?
(a) Jack.
(b) Ralph.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Piggy.

5. Piggy tells Ralph in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell” that he’s worn glasses since he was how old?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, in addition to Piggy, tries to convince Ralph not to give up his position as chief at the end of Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?

2. What does Simon hand to the littluns after they’ve followed him into the forest in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

3. 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?

4. During Piggy’s speech at the podium during the assembly he declares that “Life is” what, in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?

5. What kind of shell do Ralph and Piggy discover on the beach in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?

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