View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Simon.
(c) Henry.
(d) Jack.

2. When the boys are trying to figure out how to light a fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain,” who says, “You make a bow and spin the arrow”?
(a) Simon.
(b) Roger.
(c) Johnny.
(d) Maurice.

3. When Jack arrives at the huts, Ralph says that his hunters have been back at camp hours ago and have been doing what, in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Swimming.
(b) Building a boat.
(c) Sunbathing.
(d) Making sand castles.

4. What color is the cliff of rock that forms the side of the castle described as in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Pink.
(d) Blue.

5. 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?
(a) “Acting independently.”
(b) “Taking orders.”
(c) “Working toward a goal.”
(d) “Being patient.”

6. Ralph wheels on the hunters during the assembly in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water” and says “You can laugh! But I tell you the smoke is more important than” what?
(a) “The birds.”
(b) “The beast.”
(c) “The snake.”
(d) “The pig.”

7. What is the meaning of the word “interminable,” used in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) Cruel.
(b) Unending.
(c) Near-sighted.
(d) Far-sighted.

8. In Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach,” the narrator states, “The silence of the forest was more oppressive than” what?
(a) “The heat.”
(b) “The permanence.”
(c) “The danger.”
(d) “The isolation.”

9. One of the rules that Ralph establishes at the meeting in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain” is that no one may speak at the meetings unless he is holding what?
(a) The staff.
(b) The spear.
(c) The shell.
(d) The stone.

10. Which of the littluns had run off crying after getting sand in his eye in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) Ralph.
(b) Percival.
(c) Johnny.
(d) Henry.

11. 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) Simile.
(b) Dramatic irony.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Literary allusion.

12. Who is described in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair” as “the only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow”?
(a) Simon.
(b) Piggy.
(c) Jack.
(d) Ralph.

13. 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) Simon.
(c) Percival.
(d) Maurice.

14. Who, in addition to Piggy, tries to convince Ralph not to give up his position as chief at the end of Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?
(a) Simon.
(b) Robert.
(c) Jack.
(d) Maurice.

15. As Ralph prepares for the assembly in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water” he considers to himself, “I can’t think. Not like” whom?
(a) “Jack.”
(b) “Piggy.”
(c) “Simon.”
(d) “Johnny.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What color hair is Simon said to have in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

2. 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”?

3. What does Jack ask Ralph for when he arrives at the camp in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

4. 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?

5. What color are the pig droppings that Jack finds in the forest in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 583 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample