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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the word “furtive” mean, as used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Personalized.
(b) Savage.
(c) Stealthy.
(d) Pointless.

2. As Simon attempts to speak during the assembly in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water,” the narrator states, “Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential” what?
(a) “Beauty.”
(b) “Reverence.”
(c) “Hope.”
(d) “Illness.”

3. Who agrees to go back through the forest to the shelters and the littluns as the other boys head toward the mountain in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Simon.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Jack.
(d) Piggy.

4. Between what two characters is there a developing conflict that is foreshadowed in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Piggy and Johnny.
(b) Jack and Ralph.
(c) Simon and Maurice.
(d) Henry and Maurice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which “littlun” is unaccounted for at the end of Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

2. 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.”

3. 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”?

4. By what name does Ralph refer to Jack’s followers in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?

5. Who suggests the boys use Piggy’s glasses to start the fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

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