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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ralph find in the forest to use as a weapon in Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters”?
(a) A parachute.
(b) A stick that is pointed on two ends.
(c) A metal bear-trap.
(d) A dagger.

2. What does Ralph tell Piggy is “the only thing to do” in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) “Calling Ralph’s auntie.”
(b) “Bathing.”
(c) “Begging for help.”
(d) “Going to the mountain.”

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

4. 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 tongue.
(b) His arm.
(c) His back.
(d) His leg.

5. What happens to the body of the boy who is killed during the ritual in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) It is eaten by boars.
(b) It is carried away by the tide.
(c) It is eaten by vultures.
(d) It is impaled on a stick.

6. Jack tells his hunters at the meeting in the beginning of Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness” that Ralph said they are all what?
(a) Murderers.
(b) Monsters.
(c) Cowards.
(d) Savages.

7. Simon makes an allusion to what English Queen in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Eleanor of Rigby.
(b) Berengaria of Navarre.
(c) Queen Victoria.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.

8. What word used Chapter 9: “A View to a Death” means crazy or insane?
(a) Demented.
(b) Belligerence.
(c) Vicissitude.
(d) Declivity.

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) Religious allusion.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Simile.

10. What is Ralph said to be laying in at the beginning of Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters”?
(a) A covert.
(b) A pile of hay.
(c) A pig den.
(d) A cave.

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) Roger.
(c) Simon.
(d) Robert.

12. Who asks Jack as he disembowels the pig, “How can we make a fire?” in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Percival.
(c) Henry.
(d) Roger.

13. It is revealed to Roger in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses” that Jack got angry at what boy and had him tied up so that he can be beaten?
(a) Stanley.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Wilfred.
(d) Roger.

14. Which of the boys is killed during the ritual in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Jack.
(c) Simon.
(d) Piggy.

15. Who stops Roger as he approaches the Castle Rock, saying “Halt! Who goes there?” in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?
(a) Wilfred.
(b) Roger.
(c) Stanley.
(d) Robert.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lies on the ground behind Jack and his hunters when they emerge from the forest toward Ralph, Piggy, and the twins, in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock,”?

2. Piggy suggests to the boys that they rebuild the fire where, in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

3. What word from Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses” means to make gestures in an excited manner?

4. 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?

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”?

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