Lord of the Flies Ch. 1

Lord of the Flies Ch. 1

Reading Check Walkthrough

Multiple Choice

Ba’alzevuv is

• Hebrew

• Greek

• Portuguese

• Spanish

• Tagalog

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Beelzebub is

• Hebrew

• Greek

• Portuguese

• Spanish

• Tagalog

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Ba’alzevuv and Beelzebub both translate to

• Lord

• Flies

• Chief

• The Beast

• Lord of the Flies

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The Lord of the Flies is DEVOTED to

• Decay

• Destruction

• Demoralization

• Defenestration

• Deforestation

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The Lord of the Flies, the Beast from the Water, the Beast from the Air, and the Beast from the Land are all a reference to the Bible.

The term for making a literary reference is an

• Allegory

• Analogy

• Allusion

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

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"En media res" is Latin for how the book begins and is a literary term that means...

• "in the status quo"

• "in the midst of things"

• "inside out"

• "in utero"

• "in and out"

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“The boy with fair hair,” and “the owner of the voice…” are examples of an

• epithet

• epigraph

• epistle

• epilogue

• epitaph

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“The boy with fair hair,” is

• Piggy

• Ralph

• Jack

• Simon

• Roger

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The plane crash on the island reveals

• Water vs. Desert

• Fire vs. Ice

• Heaven vs. Hell

• Nature vs. Mechanistic World

• Innate Wisdom vs. Educated Stupidity

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The crash is described as a "scar" revealing which archetype

• The Devil Figure

• The Creature of Nightmare

• The Friendly Beast

• The Magic Weapon

• The Unhealable Wound

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The "scar" on the island is an allusion

• The mark of Cain

• Harry Potter

• Picachu

• The Lion King

• Rick and Morty

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How many adults are in chapter 1?

• 0

• 1

• 11-20

• 33

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The island is an ALLUSION to

• England

• America

• The Garden of Eden

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An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects.

• Utopia

• Youtube

• Zoolander

• Zootopia

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The kids don't know each other. Ralph is introduced, and the other kid is only referred to as

• Morty

• Mortimer

• Ralphred

• Piggy

• Fat boy

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With whom does the "fat boy" live?

• Mom

• Dad

• Mom & Dad

• Grandma

• Auntie

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What is the only name the "fat boy" does not want to be called

• fat

• boy

• fat boy

• Piggy

• Biggie

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Piggy has been wearing specs since he was

• Born

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 13

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Piggy referring to them as "specs" brings to mind British...

The term for the associations a word makes is

• denotation

• connotation

• quotation

• consonance

• assonance

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The jungle is described with heat, and witch's cry, and darkness... Appealing to these sense is known as this literary term:

• Sensory

• Imagery

• Sensoria

• Imogene

• Picturesque

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How does the author symbolize the kids' vulnerability...

• They have hearts on the sleeves of their uniforms

• Ralph disrobes and is naked

• Piggy folds his clothes

• The jungle sings

• a blue bird lands on Ralph's shoulder

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Their nakedness and lack of self-consciousness is meant to be an allusion to

• Adam and Eve

• Birth

• Birthdays

• The Apocalypse

• Jesus

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Ralph is

• built like a boxer

• is a choir leader

• the only boy with glasses

• sadistic

• "phlarp" spelled backwards

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Piggy is symbolic of

• strength

• civilization

• confidence

• playfulness

• humor

Man's Inhumanity Toward Man

Default Theme (for almost anything)

Multiple Choice

After learning "Piggy's" name, Ralph laughs and pretends to be a

• pig

• piglet

• fighter plane

• fly

• lord of the flies

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Given Ralph pretends to be a fighter plane, the reader can infer it is during

• World War I

• World War II

• World War III

• The Civil War

• The Revolutionary War

Man's Inhumanity Toward Man

• Beelzebub = The Lord of the Flies

• for Golding = This is NOT ABOUT THE DEVIL

• Devil = External

• Golding seeks INTERNAL CONFLICT

“[A]n attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature”

Golding's Theme

“[T]he shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable” 

Golding's Moral

Freud

• The SUPEREGO

• The Ego

• The Id

• Id = base, primal urge

• Can't point to Devil (look within)