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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the big boys set out to hunt down the beast in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air,” the narrator states, “This day promised, like the others, to be a sunbath under” what?
(a) “A red dome.”
(b) “A parched sky.”
(c) “A violent sky.”
(d) “A blue dome.”

2. Of the three littluns that are described together playing by the sandcastles in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair,” who is described as “the biggest of them”?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Percival.
(c) Henry.
(d) Simon.

3. What is the name of the littlun that the narrator describes crawling into a shelter and staying there for two days, “talking, singing, and crying, till they thought him batty and were faintly amused” in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?
(a) Percival.
(b) Henry.
(c) Johnny.
(d) Maurice.

4. What British slang word is used throughout the narrative to mean excellent or wonderful?
(a) “Masterly.”
(b) “Rad.”
(c) “Doge.”
(d) “Wizard.”

5. Who agrees to go back through the forest to the shelters and the littluns as the other boys head toward the mountain in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees”?
(a) Jack.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Simon.
(d) Piggy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

3. Where are the boys in Lord of the Flies from originally?

4. Ralph lies in the shelter dreaming of feeding what farm animals when Sam and Eric arrive in Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?

5. What does Jack ask Ralph for when he arrives at the camp in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?

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