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

Multiple Choice 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”?
(a) Simon.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Robert.
(d) Roger.

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

3. Who is the only boy who does not help gather firewood in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Robert.
(b) Simon.
(c) Piggy.
(d) Ralph.

4. Which of the boys had, in his “other life… received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand,” according to the narrator in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) Simon.
(b) Robert.
(c) Roger.
(d) Maurice.

5. What physical ailment does Piggy say he suffers from in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?
(a) Partial deafness.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Asthma.
(d) Epilepsy.

6. 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) Johnny.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Roger.
(d) Simon.

7. What color eyes is Jack said to have in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) Brown.
(d) Black.

8. 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) “Mankind.”
(b) “Hope.”
(c) “Sorrow.”
(d) “Faith.”

9. From what perspective is the narrative of Lord of the Flies related?
(a) Fourth person.
(b) First person.
(c) Third person.
(d) Second person.

10. Who does Ralph say will be guarding the fire that night during the assembly in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?
(a) Robert and Percival.
(b) Sam and Eric.
(c) Maurice and Roger.
(d) Johnny and Jack.

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

12. 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) “Being patient.”
(c) “Taking orders.”
(d) “Working toward a goal.”

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

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

15. What color are the pig droppings that Jack finds in the forest in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Solid black.
(b) Dark brown.
(c) Reddish brown.
(d) Olive green.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective used in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air” to describe Simon means lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness?

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

3. Who suggests the boys use Piggy’s glasses to start the fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

4. 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.”

5. Who is the only boy that is helping Ralph build the shelters in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

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