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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) “Faith.”
(c) “Hope.”
(d) “Mankind.”

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

3. What does the word “vicissitude” mean, as used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) A change or variation.
(b) A betrayal of principles.
(c) Savagery.
(d) A gathering of people.

4. When the boys are trying to figure out how to light a fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain,” who says, “You make a bow and spin the arrow”?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Roger.
(c) Johnny.
(d) Simon.

5. When the boys reenact the battle for the boar in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees,” which of the boys portrays the boar?
(a) Jack.
(b) Simon.
(c) Sam.
(d) Robert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggests at the impromptu meeting in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air,” “Couldn’t we—kind of—stay here? Maybe the beast won’t come near us”?

2. Who cuts his knee quite badly as the boys move along the rocks of the shoreline in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?

3. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” refers to a downward slope of ground?

4. Who says that the boys can’t go start a fire on the mountain because they don’t have the spectacles in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?

5. What word from Chapter 5: “Beast from Water” refers to a contortion of the body caused by violent, involuntary muscular contractions?

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