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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 5: “Beast from Water” refers to a contortion of the body caused by violent, involuntary muscular contractions?
(a) Exhilaration.
(b) Declivity.
(c) Convulsion.
(d) Belligerence.

2. What word used in Chapter 4: “Painted Faces and Long Hair” refers to a warlike or aggressively hostile nature or attitude?
(a) Belligerence.
(b) Declivity.
(c) Vicissitude.
(d) Mirage.

3. Who is the only boy that is helping Ralph build the shelters in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach”?
(a) Henry.
(b) Johnny.
(c) Simon.
(d) Jack.

4. What is Percival’s full name that he states in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?
(a) Percival William Jackson.
(b) Percival James Anderson.
(c) Percival Wemys Madison.
(d) Percival Henry Waterson.

5. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” is an adjective indicating that something is under the surface?
(a) Obstinate.
(b) Declivity.
(c) Submerged.
(d) Vicissitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the littlun that first steps forward to talk about the beast during the assembly in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?

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. What word used in Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach” refers to a downward slope of ground?

4. In Chapter 3: “Huts on the Beach,” the narrator states, “The silence of the forest was more oppressive than” what?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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