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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who are described as “the smallest boys on the island” in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) Roger and Robert.
(b) Jack and Ralph.
(c) Henry and Simon.
(d) Percival and Johnny.

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

5. What color hair is Simon said to have in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Blonde.
(b) Brown.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does Ralph say he was when his father taught him to swim in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?

2. What kinds of wild animals have the boys discovered living on the island in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

3. Who is the only boy that is helping Ralph build the shelters in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

4. 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”?

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

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