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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Personification.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Simile.
(d) Literary allusion.

2. What ocean is described as surrounding the island in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) The Atlantic Ocean.
(b) The Indian Ocean.
(c) The Arctic Ocean.
(d) The Pacific Ocean.

3. Who leads the boys to the mountaintop in order to begin building a signal fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Johnny.
(b) Jack.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Henry.

4. Where are the boys in Lord of the Flies from originally?
(a) France.
(b) England.
(c) Ireland.
(d) The United States.

5. Ralph lies in the shelter dreaming of feeding what farm animals when Sam and Eric arrive in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) Ducks.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Ponies.
(d) Pigs.

6. What color is the birthmark described as on the young boy who steps forward at the meeting in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Violet-colored.
(b) Black-colored.
(c) Crimson-colored.
(d) Mulberry-colored.

7. Piggy tells Ralph in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell” that he’s worn glasses since he was how old?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

8. What word does Piggy use in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair” to refer to images that appeared on the horizon and then disappeared as the boys watched?
(a) Simile.
(b) Declivity.
(c) Mirage.
(d) Correlation.

9. Which “littlun” is unaccounted for at the end of Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) The boy with the wheelchair.
(b) Henry.
(c) The boy with the glasses.
(d) The boy with the birthmark.

10. 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”?
(a) Phil.
(b) Jack.
(c) Bill.
(d) Piggy.

11. 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) Henry.
(b) Percival.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Simon.

12. What kind of store does Piggy say his auntie used to run in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?
(a) A shoe store.
(b) A candy store.
(c) A florist shop.
(d) A women’s clothing store.

13. The word “leviathan” that is used in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air” refers to what?
(a) A political organization.
(b) A hawk.
(c) A spaceship.
(d) A sea monster.

14. Who suggests the boys use Piggy’s glasses to start the fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Johnny.
(b) Jack.
(c) Piggy.
(d) Henry.

15. What is the name of the first little boy that arrives from the jungle when Ralph blows on the shell in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?
(a) Johnny.
(b) Simon.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Henry.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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. During Piggy’s speech at the podium during the assembly he declares that “Life is” what, in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?

4. What kinds of wild animals have the boys discovered living on the island in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

5. What weapons have Jack and the choir boys devised for hunting game on the island in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

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