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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is impaled on the stick that is referred as “The Lord of the Flies” in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) A human head.
(b) A dead bird.
(c) A horse’s head.
(d) A pig’s head.

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

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

7. 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) Maurice.
(c) Roger.
(d) Jack.

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

9. Sam and Eric tell Ralph in Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters” that Jack and who plant to hunt him tomorrow?
(a) Roger.
(b) Robert.
(c) Maurice.
(d) Johnny.

10. What is Ralph said to be laying in at the beginning of Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters”?
(a) A cave.
(b) A pig den.
(c) A covert.
(d) A pile of hay.

11. In Ralph’s memory in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees,” he recalls following his father from Chatham to where?
(a) New York.
(b) Willoughby.
(c) Davenport.
(d) London.

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

13. How many feet down does Piggy fall when he is hit by the rock in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”?
(a) 20 feet.
(b) 50 feet.
(c) 40 feet.
(d) 30 feet.

14. What word used in Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters” means a kiss of peace?
(a) Pax.
(b) Mirage.
(c) Declivity.
(d) Vicissitude.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who calls to Ralph and the others as they approach Jack’s fortress in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock,” saying “Halt! Who goes there?”

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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