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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjective used in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air” to describe Simon means lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness?
(a) Opulent.
(b) Reverent.
(c) Belligerent.
(d) Diffident.

2. The author uses the following sentence in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”: “The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings that fledged an outcrop of the pink rock.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Simile.
(b) Personification.
(c) Literary allusion.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

3. 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”?
(a) Roger.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Jack.
(d) Robert.

4. What does the imagery surrounding the vast sea symbolize in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Ralph’s mother.
(b) Eternity.
(c) Piggy.
(d) Brotherly love.

5. What does Jack ask Ralph for when he arrives at the camp in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) A spear.
(b) Piggy's glass.
(c) Water.
(d) The shell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical ailment does Piggy say he suffers from in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?

2. Of the twins, the narrator says in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air” that “they could never manage to do things sensibly if that meant” what?

3. What color is Jack Merridew’s hair in the novel?

4. 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”?

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

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