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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. What is Jack described as wearing at his waist in the end of Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters”?
(a) A mutilated pig’s head.
(b) A choir cloak.
(c) A pair of broken spectacles.
(d) A cavalry pistol.

2. Who does Piggy say was murdered in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”?
(a) Simon.
(b) Roger.
(c) Robert.
(d) Jack.

3. Who pulls the lever that drops the boulder, killing Piggy, in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”?
(a) Bill.
(b) Robert.
(c) Roger.
(d) Jack.

4. What word used in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees” refers to the quality of being dulled or rounded at the extremity?
(a) Vicissitude.
(b) Declivity.
(c) Belligerence.
(d) Obtuseness.

5. How many of the boys raise their hands when Jack demands of them, “Who thinks Ralph oughtn’t to be chief?” in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?
(a) 0.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word “myopia” mean, as used in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”?

2. Which of the boys volunteer to go along with Jack to steal fire from the other camp that night in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?

3. In Ralph’s memory in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees,” he recalls following his father from Chatham to where?

4. What symbolic object in the novel was destroyed when Piggy died?

5. Simon makes an allusion to what English Queen in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Ralph doing in the beginning of Chapter 12: “Cry of the Hunters”? What news does he learn from the twins?

2. What conflicts arise when Jack arrives at the fort in Chapter 11: “Castle Rock”?

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

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

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

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

7. What argument ensues between Ralph and his companions regarding the fire in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?

8. What suggestions do Piggy and Simon make following the meeting in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?

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

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

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