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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) Piggy.
(b) Ralph.
(c) Eric.
(d) Percival.

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

3. 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) Wilfred.
(d) Roger.

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

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

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

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

8. By what name does Ralph refer to Jack’s followers in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?
(a) “The Pig-killers.”
(b) “The Blues.”
(c) “The Painteds.”
(d) “The Reds.”

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

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

11. 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) Roger.
(b) Simon.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Robert.

12. What does Simon whisper to Ralph as Ralph sits engulfed in staring at the sea in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) “Don’t worry. Jack won’t kill you.”
(b) “You’ll get back to where you came from.”
(c) “I’ve seen the Lord of the Flies.”
(d) “I’m sure that your father is out there somewhere.”

13. 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 Wiltshire.”
(b) “In London.”
(c) “In Manchester.”
(d) “In New York.”

14. 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 hair.
(b) Cut his shorts.
(c) Cut his shirt sleeves.
(d) Cut a boat sail.

15. In Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses,” Ralph claims that what happened during the ritual was murder. What does Piggy desperately claim it was instead?
(a) Self-protection.
(b) A sign of power.
(c) A religious act.
(d) An accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Piggy say was murdered in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”?

2. Piggy says as they relight the fire in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses,” “If only we could make a” what?

3. 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!”?

4. How are the hunters able to find the wounded sow in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

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

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