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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 carpenter.”
(b) “My dad left us.”
(c) “My dad’s dead.”
(d) “My dad is a butcher.”

2. How old does Ralph say he was when his father taught him to swim in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

3. From what perspective is the narrative of Lord of the Flies related?
(a) Second person.
(b) First person.
(c) Fourth person.
(d) Third person.

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

5. Which “littlun” is unaccounted for at the end of Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?
(a) The boy with the glasses.
(b) The boy with the wheelchair.
(c) Henry.
(d) The boy with the birthmark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack say “doesn’t count at this end of the island” in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?

2. Which of the boys had, in his “other life… received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand,” according to the narrator in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair”?

3. Who suggests the boys use Piggy’s glasses to start the fire in Chapter 2: “Fire on the Mountain”?

4. What word does Piggy use in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair” to refer to images that appeared on the horizon and then disappeared as the boys watched?

5. What colors of face paint is Jack described as wearing in Chapter 10: “The Shell and the Glasses”?

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