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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 spear.
(c) The stone.
(d) The staff.

2. Who performs clownishly at the assembly in order to make the littluns stop wailing in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?
(a) Piggy.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Jack.
(d) Ralph.

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

4. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” refers to the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower?
(a) Plots.
(b) Cultivars.
(c) Sepals.
(d) Stamens.

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

6. The first boy that appears after Ralph blows the sounds on the shell is said to be about how old in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

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

8. What does the word “furtive” mean, as used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Stealthy.
(b) Personalized.
(c) Savage.
(d) Pointless.

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

10. Which of the littluns does Roger follow to the beach and begin throwing stones at in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Henry.
(c) Simon.
(d) Johnny.

11. What weapons have Jack and the choir boys devised for hunting game on the island in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Guns.
(b) Blowguns.
(c) Spears.
(d) Bows and arrows.

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

13. 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) Sunbathing.
(b) Making sand castles.
(c) Building a boat.
(d) Swimming.

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

15. What is the name of the littlun that the narrator describes crawling into a shelter and staying there for two days, “talking, singing, and crying, till they thought him batty and were faintly amused” in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) Percival.
(b) Johnny.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Henry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What British slang word is used throughout the narrative to mean excellent or wonderful?

2. When does Piggy surmise the war will be over when he speaks at the assembly in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?

3. What is the meaning of the word “ebullience,” used in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

4. What word from Chapter 5: “Beast from Water” refers to a contortion of the body caused by violent, involuntary muscular contractions?

5. What word used in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair” refers to a warlike or aggressively hostile nature or attitude?

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