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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Jack.
(c) Sam.
(d) Simon.

2. How many of the boys raise their hands when Jack demands of them, “Who thinks Ralph oughtn’t to be chief?” in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?
(a) 10.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 0.

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

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

5. Who lights the new fire in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?
(a) Jack.
(b) Piggy.
(c) Simon.
(d) Johnny.

6. 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.”

7. In the reenactment of the pig killing in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness,” who portrays the sow?
(a) Roger.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Jack.
(d) Robert.

8. Who responds when Ralph asks where Jack is in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock,” saying “He’s hunting. And he said we weren’t to let you in”?
(a) Phil.
(b) Bill.
(c) Roger.
(d) Robert.

9. Piggy says as they relight the fire in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses,” “If only we could make a” what?
(a) "Saw."
(b) "Raft."
(c) "Radio."
(d) "Fan."

10. What is Jack described as wearing at his waist in the end of Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters”?
(a) A choir cloak.
(b) A cavalry pistol.
(c) A mutilated pig’s head.
(d) A pair of broken spectacles.

11. In the ending of Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters,” the narrator notes that when the children all begin weeping, “The officer, surrounded by these noises, was moved and a little” what?
(a) "Emotional."
(b) “Overwhelmed.”
(c) “Embarrassed.”
(d) "Angry."

12. The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean was written by what Scottish author?
(a) R. M. Ballantyne.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Mark Twain.

13. 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”?
(a) Simon.
(b) Piggy.
(c) Percival.
(d) Sam.

14. What does Simon discover “the beast” to actually be in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) A severed pig’s head impaled on a stick.
(b) A dead water buffalo.
(c) A dead pilot attached to a parachute.
(d) A part of a plane engine.

15. What do the twins and Piggy bring back to Ralph from the forest in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?
(a) Fire.
(b) Meat.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Water.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks Jack in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses,” “What’ll we use for lighting the fire”?

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

3. As Ralph’s remaining tribe heads toward Jack’s fortress in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock,” the narrator says, “Behind [Ralph] came the twins, worried now for a while but full of” what?

4. Jack tells his hunters at the meeting in the beginning of Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness” that Ralph said they are all what?

5. In the beginning of Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees,” Ralph wishes that he had a pair of scissors to do what?

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