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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the boys pick up and carry the pig after the kill in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?
(a) Maurice and Robert.
(b) Simon and Ralph.
(c) Henry and Jack.
(d) Piggy and Percival.

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

3. Who asks Jack in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses,” “What’ll we use for lighting the fire”?
(a) Bill.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Simon.
(d) Johnny.

4. What does the officer say drew his crew to the island in Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters”?
(a) The sight of the airplane wreckage.
(b) The sounds of screaming.
(c) The smoke from the fire.
(d) The sound of gunfire.

5. 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) Simon.
(b) Piggy.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Jack.

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

7. Which of the boys volunteer to go along with Jack to steal fire from the other camp that night in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?
(a) Maurice and Roger.
(b) James and Peter.
(c) Bill and Stewart.
(d) Robert and Simon.

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

9. In the beginning of Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees,” Ralph wishes that he had a pair of scissors to do what?
(a) Cut his shorts.
(b) Cut a boat sail.
(c) Cut his shirt sleeves.
(d) Cut his hair.

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

11. Ralph says to the boys in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock” that when they approach Jack’s camp “we won’t be painted because we aren’t” what?
(a) “Jack’s followers.”
(b) “Idiots.”
(c) “Hunters.”
(d) “Savages.”

12. When Ralph and Piggy arrive at the feast in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death,” which of the boys, “thinking that Ralph had turned to him accusingly, put down his gnawed bone with a nervous giggle”?
(a) Robert.
(b) Roger.
(c) Sam.
(d) Jack.

13. Who says that the boys can’t go start a fire on the mountain because they don’t have the spectacles in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Robert.
(b) Roger.
(c) Jack.
(d) Maurice.

14. 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) Maurice.
(b) Jack.
(c) Piggy.
(d) Sam.

15. What does Simon say when he first speaks aloud in the jungle in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) “What else is there to do?”
(b) “Why can’t I get home?”
(c) “Where is the Lord of the Flies?”
(d) “Where are Jack and the others?”

Short Answer Questions

1. In the end of Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters,” Ralph is said to weep for “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart,” and for the death of what “true, wise friend”?

2. What is Ralph said to be laying in at the beginning of Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters”?

3. Who obeys when Jack orders “Give me a drink” after he’s eaten at the feast in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?

4. What is Jack described as wearing at his waist in the end of Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters”?

5. Which of the following is one of the central themes in Lord of the Flies?

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