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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the ritual in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death,” the narrator says, “Along the shoreward edge of the shallows the advancing clearness was full of strange, moonbeam-bodied creatures with” what?
(a) “Hopeful eyes.”
(b) “Mystical eyes.”
(c) “Fiery eyes.”
(d) “Eyes like opals.”

2. Who cuts the sow’s neck with a knife in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?
(a) Simon.
(b) Johnny.
(c) Jack.
(d) Ralph.

3. What colors of face paint is Jack described as wearing in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?
(a) Black and blue.
(b) Red and green.
(c) Red and white.
(d) Brown and black.

4. Where does the narrator say a great scab had formed on Ralph in the opening of Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?
(a) On his chest.
(b) On his arm.
(c) On his neck.
(d) On his knee.

5. Which boy interrupts Jack when he is talking about the beast appearing in disguise to say, “But didn’t we, didn’t we--?” in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?
(a) Stanley.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Roger.
(d) Wilfred.

6. When Ralph looks back to Castle Rock from the forest in the beginning of Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters,” who does he see “sitting on guard at the top of the cliff” with “a spear in his left hand and tossing up a pebble and catching it again with the right”?
(a) Robert.
(b) Roger.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Simon.

7. Who portrays the pig in the ritual dance after the feast in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) Roger.
(b) Simon.
(c) Piggy.
(d) Ralph.

8. What word from Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses” means to make gestures in an excited manner?
(a) Revere.
(b) Luxuriate.
(c) Gesticulate.
(d) Pontificate

9. In Chapter 11: “Castle Rock,” the narrator says, “There was no sign left of the storm, and the beach was swept clean like a blade that has been scoured.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Simile.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Religious allusion.

10. What part of his body gives Simon frequent pain as he makes his way through the jungle in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) His leg.
(b) His back.
(c) His tongue.
(d) His arm.

11. Who calls to Ralph and the others as they approach Jack’s fortress in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock,” saying “Halt! Who goes there?”
(a) Phil.
(b) Simon.
(c) Roger.
(d) Robert.

12. When the boys reenact the battle for the boar in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees,” which of the boys portrays the boar?
(a) Sam.
(b) Jack.
(c) Simon.
(d) Robert.

13. Who suggests that the boys need a drum after the pig-killing ritual in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Johnny.
(b) Percival.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Jack.

14. As Ralph drifts to sleep in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses,” he imagines to himself, “Supposing they could be transported home by jet, then before morning they would land at that big airfield” where?
(a) “In New York.”
(b) “In London.”
(c) “In Wiltshire.”
(d) “In Manchester.”

15. What does the imagery surrounding the vast sea symbolize in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Ralph’s mother.
(b) Brotherly love.
(c) Eternity.
(d) Piggy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word used in Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters” means a kiss of peace?

2. Who lights the new fire in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

3. The narrator states in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness,” “The greatest ideas are the” what?

4. The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean was written by what Scottish author?

5. Who says at the suggestion of going to Castle Rock to talk to Jack about Piggy’s glasses, “We ought to take spears,” in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”?

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