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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the word “myopia” mean, as used in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”?
(a) Betrayal.
(b) Unworthiness.
(c) Nearsightedness.
(d) Farsightedness.

4. 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) “Savages.”
(b) “Jack’s followers.”
(c) “Idiots.”
(d) “Hunters.”

5. 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) Roger.
(b) Phil.
(c) Robert.
(d) Bill.

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

7. 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 stick that is pointed on two ends.
(d) A dagger.

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

9. 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) A religious act.
(b) A sign of power.
(c) An accident.
(d) Self-protection.

10. 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) Piggy and Percival.
(d) Henry and Jack.

11. 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) Water.
(d) Fruit.

12. 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) Jack.
(c) Simon.
(d) Piggy.

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

14. How are the hunters able to find the wounded sow in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?
(a) By the trail of her piglets.
(b) By the smell of her.
(c) By the trail of blood.
(d) By the squealing sounds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Jack claims at the meeting in the beginning of Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness” that Ralph “says things like” whom?

2. Ralph tells Piggy in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses,” “I’m frightened. Of” what?

3. In the reenactment of the killing of the pig in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness,” who portrays the killer?

4. 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”?

5. 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”?

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