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

2. Who does Jack order his tribe to capture and tie up in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”?
(a) Percival and Bill.
(b) Piggy and Ralph.
(c) Henry and Roger.
(d) Sam and Eric.

3. In the reenactment of the killing of the pig in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness,” who portrays the killer?
(a) Roger.
(b) Robert.
(c) Jack.
(d) Maurice.

4. What lies on the ground behind Jack and his hunters when they emerge from the forest toward Ralph, Piggy, and the twins, in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock,”?
(a) A pig’s head.
(b) A dead bird.
(c) A dead littlun.
(d) A headless pig.

5. Jack tells his hunters at the meeting in the beginning of Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness” that Ralph said they are all what?
(a) Murderers.
(b) Monsters.
(c) Savages.
(d) Cowards.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who obeys when Jack orders “Give me a drink” after he’s eaten at the feast in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?

2. What word used in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees” refers to the quality of being dulled or rounded at the extremity?

3. Piggy suggests to the boys that they rebuild the fire where, in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

4. What word does Ralph use in referring to a bath in the beginning of Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?

5. What is Ralph said to be laying in at the beginning of Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is symbolized by the destruction of the conch shell in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”?

2. How has Ralph’s tribe changed by the beginning of Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?

3. Where does Ralph sleep before “the hunt” in Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters”? What awakens him?

4. What does Simon discover while he is alone in the forest in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?

5. Why does Ralph go to Jack’s fort in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”? What does he encounter when he arrives?

6. How does Jack differ from Ralph as a leader, as seen in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?

7. How does Ralph attempt to escape the hunters in Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters”?

8. What happens when one of the hunters spots a pig in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?

9. What is symbolized by the death of Simon in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?

10. What do Ralph and his companions decide to do about the fire in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

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