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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The members of the choir have adjusted their choir hats to resemble what, in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Fedoras.
(b) Wizard hats.
(c) Berets.
(d) Cowboy hats.

4. How old does Ralph say he was when his father taught him to swim in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

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. Who picks up Percival and carries him to a shelter in the beginning of Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) Piggy and Simon.
(b) Jack and Roger.
(c) Robert and Henry.
(d) Ralph and Simon.

7. 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.

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

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

10. 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) Henry.
(b) Simon.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Johnny.

11. What adjective used in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air” to describe Simon means lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness?
(a) Opulent.
(b) Belligerent.
(c) Diffident.
(d) Reverent.

12. What does the boy with the birthmark first call “the beastie” in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) “The snake-thing.”
(b) “The bird-thing.”
(c) “The bear-thing.”
(d) “The wolf-thing.”

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

14. One of the twins asks the other if he remembers what character from school in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) “Old Potters.”
(b) “Old Wizard.”
(c) “Old Gremlin.”
(d) “Old Waxy.”

15. What color hair is Simon said to have in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Black.
(b) Blonde.
(c) Brown.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Jack suggests that “the castle” would make an excellent fort in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air,” this is an example of what literary technique?

3. 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”?

4. From what perspective is the narrative of Lord of the Flies related?

5. What color eyes is Jack said to have in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

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