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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the hunters able to find the wounded sow in Chapter 8: “Gift for the Darkness”?
(a) By the trail of her piglets.
(b) By the trail of blood.
(c) By the squealing sounds.
(d) By the smell of her.

2. Who picks up Percival and carries him to a shelter in the beginning of Chapter 6: “Beast from Air”?
(a) Ralph and Simon.
(b) Robert and Henry.
(c) Piggy and Simon.
(d) Jack and Roger.

3. What physical ailment does Piggy say he suffers from in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?
(a) Epilepsy.
(b) Asthma.
(c) Partial deafness.
(d) Tuberculosis.

4. What happens to the body of the boy who is killed during the ritual in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death”?
(a) It is eaten by boars.
(b) It is carried away by the tide.
(c) It is eaten by vultures.
(d) It is impaled on a stick.

5. Who acts as Ralph’s witness that he hit the boar with the spear in Chapter 7: “Shadows and Tall Trees,” saying “I saw you. Right bang on his snout—Wheee!”?
(a) Sam.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Piggy.
(d) Jack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Percival’s full name that he states in Chapter 5: “Beast from Water”?

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. The narrator says of Ralph in the beginning of Chapter 5: “Beast from Water,” “He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching” what?

4. The narrator notes when the feast begins to die down in Chapter 9: “A View to a Death,” “Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with” what?

5. The first boy that appears after Ralph blows the sounds on the shell is said to be about how old in Chapter 1: “The Sound of the Shell”?

(see the answer key)

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