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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 11: “Castle Rock,” the narrator says, “There was no sign left of the storm, and the beach was swept clean like a blade that has been scoured.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Simile.
(b) Religious allusion.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Assonance.

2. 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 sounds of screaming.
(d) The sight of the airplane wreckage.

3. What does the word “propitiate” mean, as used in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”?
(a) To appease.
(b) To propel.
(c) To worship.
(d) To gather.

4. 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) Self-protection.
(c) An accident.
(d) A sign of power.

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

6. 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 trail of blood.
(c) By the smell of her.
(d) By the squealing sounds.

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

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

9. 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”?
(a) His leg.
(b) His back.
(c) His arm.
(d) His tongue.

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

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

12. Simon makes an allusion to what English Queen in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) Eleanor of Rigby.
(c) Berengaria of Navarre.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.

13. What word does Ralph use in referring to a bath in the beginning of Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Frolic.
(b) Sepals.
(c) Wallow.
(d) Declivity.

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

15. 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) “Fiery eyes.”
(b) “Hopeful eyes.”
(c) “Mystical eyes.”
(d) “Eyes like opals.”

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. Who portrays the pig in the ritual dance after the feast in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?

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

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. The narrator notes when the feast begins to die down in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death,” “Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with” what?

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