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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During Piggy’s speech at the podium during the assembly he declares that “Life is” what, in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?
(a) “Futile.”
(b) “Hopeful.”
(c) “Meaningless.”
(d) “Scientific.”

2. The narrator says of Ralph in the beginning of Chapter 5: “Beast from Water,” “He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching” what?
(a) “The road ahead.”
(b) “The road behind.”
(c) “One’s back.”
(d) “One’s feet.”

3. The author uses the following sentence in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”: “The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings that fledged an outcrop of the pink rock.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Literary allusion.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Simile.
(d) Personification.

4. What is Piggy’s answer when Ralph asks him in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell,” “What’s your father?”
(a) “My dad is a butcher.”
(b) “My dad left us.”
(c) “My dad is a carpenter.”
(d) “My dad’s dead.”

5. Who suggests the boys use Piggy’s glasses to start the fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) Jack.
(b) Henry.
(c) Piggy.
(d) Johnny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the littluns does Roger follow to the beach and begin throwing stones at in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?

2. The word “leviathan” that is used in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air” refers to what?

3. The narrator says in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair,” “At midday the illusions merged into the sky and there the sun gazed down like” what?

4. What word from Chapter 5: “Beast from Water” refers to a contortion of the body caused by violent, involuntary muscular contractions?

5. Who is the only boy who does not help gather firewood in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Piggy’s statements during the meeting are largely ignored in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

2. How does Piggy contribute at the meeting in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?

3. How do the positions of authority and leadership begin to evolve in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?

4. What events have led to the boys’ arrival on the island in Lord of the Flies?

5. What routines have been established on the island in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?

6. Who are the first characters introduced in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”? How are they described?

7. Why does Ralph allow Jack to take the lead in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”? What consequences does this have?

8. What is foreshadowed at the vote for the leader at the meeting in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”? Who is chosen?

9. How have Ralph’s feelings about Piggy begun to change in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?

10. How is the character of Simon described in the novel? What physical condition does Simon suffer from?

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