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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the name of the littlun that the narrator describes crawling into a shelter and staying there for two days, “talking, singing, and crying, till they thought him batty and were faintly amused” in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) Percival.
(b) Henry.
(c) Johnny.
(d) Maurice.
2. Simon makes an allusion to what English Queen in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Queen Elizabeth.
(b) Eleanor of Rigby.
(c) Queen Victoria.
(d) Berengaria of Navarre.
3. The “half-cave” that Ralph and Jack encounter while looking for the beast is said to contain “nothing more terrible than a clutch of” what, in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) “Rotten fruit.”
(b) “Spears.”
(c) “Baby pigs.”
(d) “Rotten eggs.”
4. When Ralph and Piggy arrive at the feast in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death,” which of the boys, “thinking that Ralph had turned to him accusingly, put down his gnawed bone with a nervous giggle”?
(a) Roger.
(b) Sam.
(c) Robert.
(d) Jack.
5. 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) “The road behind.”
(b) “One’s feet.”
(c) “One’s back.”
(d) “The road ahead.”
Short Answer Questions
1. The first boy that appears after Ralph blows the sounds on the shell is said to be about how old in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?
2. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” is an adjective indicating that something is under the surface?
3. What adjective used in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air” to describe Simon means lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness?
4. Who leads the boys to the mountaintop in order to begin building a signal fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
5. The narrator states in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness,” “The greatest ideas are the” what?
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