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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Fruit.
(c) Candy.
(d) Meat.

3. Who are described as “the smallest boys on the island” in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) Henry and Simon.
(b) Roger and Robert.
(c) Jack and Ralph.
(d) Percival and Johnny.

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

5. 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) Simon and Johnny.
(c) Sam and Eric.
(d) Percival and Maurice.

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

7. 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?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Interrogation.
(c) Religious allusion.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

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

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

10. What British slang word is used throughout the narrative to mean excellent or wonderful?
(a) “Wizard.”
(b) “Masterly.”
(c) “Rad.”
(d) “Doge.”

11. 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?
(a) “Reverence.”
(b) “Beauty.”
(c) “Hope.”
(d) “Illness.”

12. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” refers to a downward slope of ground?
(a) Exhilaration.
(b) Declivity.
(c) Simile.
(d) Vicissitude.

13. 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) Declivity.
(c) Simile.
(d) Mirage.

14. 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) “Sorrow.”
(c) “Hope.”
(d) “Faith.”

15. Ralph lies in the shelter dreaming of feeding what farm animals when Sam and Eric arrive in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) Ponies.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Ducks.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach,” the narrator states, “The silence of the forest was more oppressive than” what?

2. 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?

3. Ralph tells Piggy in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell” that his father holds what position?

4. 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”?

5. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” refers to the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower?

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