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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Robert.
(c) Roger.
(d) Maurice.

3. What word from Chapter 5: “Beast from Water” refers to a contortion of the body caused by violent, involuntary muscular contractions?
(a) Belligerence.
(b) Declivity.
(c) Convulsion.
(d) Exhilaration.

4. Which of the boys comes up to Ralph at the castle to ask in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air,” “Why can’t we stay here for a bit?”
(a) Jack.
(b) Henry.
(c) Bill.
(d) Simon.

5. 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) “Scientific.”
(c) “Meaningless.”
(d) “Futile.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Ralph tells Piggy in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell” that his father holds what position?

2. What color eyes is Jack said to have in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

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

4. Ralph lies in the shelter dreaming of feeding what farm animals when Sam and Eric arrive in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?

5. Who stands up at the assembly and claims he was alone in the forest at night in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?

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