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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. The narrator states in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness,” “The greatest ideas are the” what?
(a) “Hardest.”
(b) “Most complex.”
(c) “Simplest.”
(d) “Most derisive.”

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

3. As Ralph’s remaining tribe heads toward Jack’s fortress in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock,” the narrator says, “Behind [Ralph] came the twins, worried now for a while but full of” what?
(a) “Love for their leader.”
(b) “Unquenchable vitality.”
(c) “Obvious curiosity.”
(d) “Vitriol and violence.”

4. What word used Chapter 9: “A View to a Death” means crazy or insane?
(a) Demented.
(b) Declivity.
(c) Vicissitude.
(d) Belligerence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the body of the boy who is killed during the ritual in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?

2. Who suggests that the boys need a drum after the pig-killing ritual in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?

3. 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?

4. Who lights the new fire in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jack announce at the meeting in the beginning of Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

2. What confrontation takes place between Jack and Ralph in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?

3. What is illustrated by the fact that many of the boys begin to disappear from Ralph’s camp in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

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

5. What do Jack and Ralph argue about during their journey in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?

6. What leads up to Simon’s death in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”? How does Simon die?

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

8. What is ironic about the denouement of Lord of the Flies?

9. How is the death of Simon perceived by the boys in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”? What does this indicate about their characters?

10. What is represented metaphorically through the killing of the sow in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

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