Lord of the Flies Challenge Quiz

Lord of the Flies Challenge questions

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1. What happens when Jack first corners a young pig tangled in the creepers?
   He lets Ralph make the first cut · He drives it towards the water · He pauses, and the pig gets away · He kills it and shares the meat
2. What does Piggy insist on when he finally takes the shell after the fire?
   That the hunters need more spears · That the choir should obey Ralph · That the shelters must come first · That no one knows where they are
3. What does Simon's habit of slipping away to a screened clearing suggest about him?
   He is searching for the creature · He is afraid of Jack's hunters · He wants to be chief himself · He is at ease away from the group
4. What happens to Piggy when he speaks up about the fire going out?
   He is made to carry the meat · Jack hits him and a lens breaks · Ralph orders him to keep quiet · The hunters take his glasses away
5. What does Simon suggest about the creature the boys fear?
   That it lives out beyond the reef · That it may be the boys themselves · That the hunters have scared it off · That it is only a kind of squid
6. Why does the dead airman appear to move?
   Birds settle on the harness · Wind fills the tangled parachute · The tide reaches up the slope · Rain loosens the rocks beneath
7. What does Ralph feel looking out at the open ocean from the far shore?
   That the water is safe to swim · That rescue is hopelessly distant · That the creature came from there · That a ship must pass that way
8. What do the hunters do with the sow's head?
   Bury it by the bathing pool · Leave it as an offering · Hang it over the fire to cook · Carry it back to Ralph's camp
9. What does Simon understand as he sits before the head in his clearing?
   That the creature is a dead man · That the hunters will share meat · That the evil is inside them · That Jack means to kill Ralph
10. How do the boys treat Simon when he stumbles out of the forest?
    They push him in front of Jack · They take him for the creature · They make him join the dance · They carry him to the shelters
11. What do the raiders take from Ralph's shelter in the night?
    The shell from the platform · The spears the boys had made · The last of the stored fruit · Piggy's glasses from his face
12. What is the significance of the shell breaking as Piggy falls?
    Agreed rule ends with its holder · Jack loses his claim to be chief · The tribe is left without fire · The creature is proved real
13. What actually brings the naval officer to the island?
    A search begun for the plane · Smoke from the burning forest · A radio call from the wreck · The signal fire on the beach
14. What do the paired titles of Chapters 5 and 6 reveal about the boys' fear?
    It fades once the fire is lit · It was invented by the youngest · It is given a shape by chance · It began with Jack's hunters
15. What is the difference between the beach platform and Castle Rock as places?
    One faces the reef, one the sea · One holds fire, one holds water · One is for talk, one for force · One is Simon's, one is Jack's

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Original questions written for Pagine. This book is in copyright, so questions paraphrase rather than quote it.