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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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.”
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Literary allusion.
(c) Dramatic irony.
(d) Simile.
2. Who cuts his knee quite badly as the boys move along the rocks of the shoreline in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Ralph.
(b) Jack.
(c) Roger.
(d) Robert.
3. Where does the narrator say a great scab had formed on Ralph in the opening of Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?
(a) On his knee.
(b) On his chest.
(c) On his neck.
(d) On his arm.
4. As the big boys set out to hunt down the beast in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air,” the narrator states, “This day promised, like the others, to be a sunbath under” what?
(a) “A violent sky.”
(b) “A blue dome.”
(c) “A red dome.”
(d) “A parched sky.”
5. What is the meaning of the word “ebullience,” used in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Exhilaration.
(b) Vicissitude.
(c) Luxuriance.
(d) Belligerence.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the older boys leads the way through the sand castles, kicking them over and laughing, in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
2. In Chapter 11: “Castle Rock,” the narrator says, “There was no sign left of the storm, and the beach was swept clean like a blade that has been scoured.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
3. Who acts as Ralph’s witness that he hit the boar with the spear in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees,” saying “I saw you. Right bang on his snout—Wheee!”?
4. Who picks up Percival and carries him to a shelter in the beginning of Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
5. 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”?
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