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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who suggests that the boys use their socks like caps in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”?
(a) Ralph.
(b) Piggy.
(c) Percival.
(d) Eric.

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

3. 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.

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

5. What does Jack say “doesn’t count at this end of the island” in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) “The torch.”
(b) “The king.”
(c) “The conch.”
(d) “The stone.”

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

7. What word used in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees” refers to the quality of being dulled or rounded at the extremity?
(a) Declivity.
(b) Vicissitude.
(c) Obtuseness.
(d) Belligerence.

8. Who acts as Ralph’s witness that he hit the boar with the spear in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees,” saying “I saw you. Right bang on his snout—Wheee!”?
(a) Sam.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Jack.
(d) Piggy.

9. Piggy suggests to the boys that they rebuild the fire where, in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?
(a) On the beach.
(b) At the Castle Rock.
(c) In the forest.
(d) On the mountain.

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

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

12. 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?
(a) “Obvious curiosity.”
(b) “Vitriol and violence.”
(c) “Love for their leader.”
(d) “Unquenchable vitality.”

13. 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) Maurice.
(b) Stanley.
(c) Roger.
(d) Wilfred.

14. Who agrees to go back through the forest to the shelters and the littluns as the other boys head toward the mountain in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Piggy.
(c) Jack.
(d) Simon.

15. Who is back at the shelters with the littluns as the other boys are on the hunt for the beast in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Simon.
(b) Piggy.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Maurice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word “myopia” mean, as used in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”?

2. What symbolic object in the novel was destroyed when Piggy died?

3. Who does Jack order his tribe to capture and tie up in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”?

4. Which of the boys pick up and carry the pig after the kill in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

5. Piggy asks the crowd of boys during the showdown in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock,” “Which is better—to have rules and agree, or” what?

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