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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Simon hand to the littluns after they’ve followed him into the forest in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Meat.
(b) Candy.
(c) Spears.
(d) Fruit.

2. Who does Piggy say was murdered in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”?
(a) Jack.
(b) Robert.
(c) Simon.
(d) Roger.

3. In the reenactment of the killing of the pig in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness,” who portrays the killer?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Robert.
(c) Roger.
(d) Jack.

4. Of the boys on the island, the narrator says in the beginning of Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair,” “They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that” what “was not necessary and therefore forgotten”?
(a) “Hope.”
(b) “Sorrow.”
(c) “Mankind.”
(d) “Faith.”

5. Which of the boys comes up to Ralph at the castle to ask in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air,” “Why can’t we stay here for a bit?”
(a) Bill.
(b) Henry.
(c) Simon.
(d) Jack.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the end of Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters,” Ralph is said to weep for “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart,” and for the death of what “true, wise friend”?

3. In the ending of Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters,” the narrator notes that when the children all begin weeping, “The officer, surrounded by these noises, was moved and a little” what?

4. 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?

5. What does the word “vicissitude” mean, as used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

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