Lord of the Flies

Question 1

What excuse does Ralph give to let Piggy stay behind when the other boys go for the Beast?

Accepted Answer

Someone should look after the littluns

Question 2

What human emotion if the MOST important and prevalent in Lord of the Flies?

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Fear

Question 3

What happens to Simon, Piggy, the plane, and the parachutist?

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The get washed out to sea

Question 4

How do the boys in Jack’s tribe protect Castle Rock?

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With a large bolder with a lever under it

Question 5

Which of the following objects symbolizes hope of rescue?

Accepted Answer

fire

Question 6

The boys taunt Piggy for all of the following reasons except:

Accepted Answer

his intelligence

Question 7

. What literary device is utilized in the part book on which question 29 is based?

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dramatic irony

Question 8

Who kills Simon?

Accepted Answer

Ralph, PIGGY, Roger, Jack

Question 9

Jack changes from a civilized schoolboy to a (an)

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“savage” obsessed with hunting

Question 10

What is the “thing that crawls out of the forest”?

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Simon

Question 11

How does Jack respond when Ralph calls his hunters “boys armed with sticks”?

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Calls an assembly

Question 12

Applying paint to the boys faces allows them to finally

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Be free of social taboos

Question 13

What prevents Piggy from running and swimming?

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his asthmar

Question 14

How old is Ralph?

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12

Question 15

Which of the following objects symbolizes science in service of humanity?

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specs

Question 16

Which of the following characters can best be described as a static character:

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Piggy

Question 17

1. Who wrote Lord of the Flies?

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William Golding

Question 18

Which boy suggests “we’ll have rules! Lots of rules! And if anybody breaks them…”?

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none of these

Question 19

. Who first discovers it?

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Samneric

Question 20

Which of the following best summarizes the theme of Lord of the Flies?

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Socialized behavior will breakdown under the right circumstances.

Question 21

What made it descend onto the island (how did it get there)?

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He was shot down in battle

Question 22

What excuse does Jack give for not killing the pig early in the novel?

Accepted Answer

I was looking for a place to stick it

Question 23

Roger is unable to throw rock directly at Henry on the beach because

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The laws of civilization restrain him

Question 24

The conch shell becomes a symbol of

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Authority and order

Question 25

Jack impales the sow’s head on a stick

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as a gift to the beast

Question 26

What is the name of Ms. Tuthill’s sweetie?

Accepted Answer

Steve

Question 27

. Question 33 (and its answer) foreshadows which of the following events:

Accepted Answer

The death of piggy

Question 28

Which of the following objects symbolizes evil?

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Lord of the Flies

Question 29

What is the SCAR

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The place the plane dug into the island

Question 30

While staring at the pig’s head, Simon realizes that the beast is

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the evil within the human heart and mind

Question 31

Which of the following characters represents absolute evil?

Accepted Answer

Roger

Question 32

Lord of the Flies has what type of ending?

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Deus ex machina

Question 33

Which of the following characters represents the “every man”

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Ralph

Question 34

What do Ralph, Jack and Roger find when they get to the top of the mountain?

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What the y think is the beast

Question 35

Jack takes the boys to Castle Rock because it is

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A natural fortress

Question 36

How does Piggy place the blame on what happened to Simon on Simon himself?

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All of these

Question 37

Ralph is elected chief for all of the following reasons except:

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He pasessess intellectual superiority

Question 38

Which of the following characters represents the darker side of humanity? This Id

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Jack

Question 39

The term “lord of the flies” is a translation of what Semitic word?

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Beelzebub

Question 40

What does Ralph do for Jack to maintain peace?

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lets him be in charge of the choir

Question 41

What falls to the island during the night?

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a dead parachutist

Question 42

Who grabs Eric’s spear and jabs at Robert with it during a “kill the pig” ritual?

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Ralph

Question 43

What gives little Henry so much pleasure as he pokes the small lifeforms in the H20

Accepted Answer

He feels powerful and Godlike

Question 44

In what point of view is the Lord of the Flies written?

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Omniscient

Question 45

40. Which of the following characters represents absolute good

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Simon

Question 46

What distracts the boys from the search for the Beast?

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a pig

Question 47

What does Jack do when the boys don’t respond to his demand to be chief?

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Cries

Question 48

Piggy’s auntie owns a:

Accepted Answer

candy shop

Question 49

The pigs head later becomes known as

Accepted Answer

The Lord of the FLies

Lord of the Flies

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Lord of the Flies

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