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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Piggy suggests to the boys that they rebuild the fire where, in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?
(a) At the Castle Rock.
(b) In the forest.
(c) On the beach.
(d) On the mountain.

2. Which of the boys is killed during the ritual in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Piggy.
(c) Simon.
(d) Jack.

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

4. What happens to the body of the boy who is killed during the ritual in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) It is eaten by vultures.
(b) It is impaled on a stick.
(c) It is eaten by boars.
(d) It is carried away by the tide.

5. Of the three littluns that are described together playing by the sandcastles in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair,” who is described as “the biggest of them”?
(a) Simon.
(b) Henry.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Percival.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the only boy who does not help gather firewood in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

3. What word is used in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses” to mean pertaining to the study of religious truth or divinity?

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”?

5. Which of the boys pick up and carry the pig after the kill in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

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