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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Sam.
(c) Jack.
(d) Maurice.

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

3. 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) Maurice.
(b) Robert.
(c) Jack.
(d) Roger.

4. What ailment does Simon seemingly suffer from in Lord of the Flies?
(a) Epilepsy
(b) Color-blindness.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Asthma.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

12. What is the second tactic used by Jack’s tribe to flush Ralph from the thicket in Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters”?
(a) They shoot guns into the thicket.
(b) They hurl boulders into the thicket.
(c) They send a wild boar into the thicket.
(d) They light the thicket on fire.

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

14. What word does Jack use in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness” that refers to a person appointed to a position of command or authority?
(a) Sepal.
(b) Prefect.
(c) Minaret.
(d) Charlatan.

15. Who stops Roger as he approaches the Castle Rock, saying “Halt! Who goes there?” in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?
(a) Stanley.
(b) Wilfred.
(c) Robert.
(d) Roger.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What word is used in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses” to mean pertaining to the study of religious truth or divinity?

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

4. Who asks Jack as he disembowels the pig, “How can we make a fire?” in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

5. What does Ralph tell Piggy is “the only thing to do” in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?

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