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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 red dome.”
(b) “A violent sky.”
(c) “A blue dome.”
(d) “A parched sky.”

3. 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) Pigs.
(d) Ponies.

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

5. 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 spear.
(b) The staff.
(c) The stone.
(d) The shell.

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

7. What are the names of the twins that appear on the beach in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?
(a) Sam and Eric.
(b) Percival and Maurice.
(c) Roger and Robert.
(d) Simon and Johnny.

8. 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) Henry.
(b) Simon.
(c) Bill.
(d) Jack.

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

10. 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) Correlation.
(b) Simile.
(c) Mirage.
(d) Declivity.

11. 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) Ralph.
(b) Piggy.
(c) Simon.
(d) Jack.

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

13. 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) Robert.
(b) Jack.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Simon.

14. What kinds of wild animals have the boys discovered living on the island in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Turkeys.
(b) Deer.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Foxes.

15. 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 snake.”
(b) “The birds.”
(c) “The pig.”
(d) “The beast.”

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the twins asks the other if he remembers what character from school in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?

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. Who are described as “the smallest boys on the island” in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?

4. What kind of store does Piggy say his auntie used to run in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?

5. What is Piggy’s answer when Ralph asks him in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell,” “What’s your father?”

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