Quiz Chapters 6/7 Lord of the Flies

Quiz Chapters 6/7 Lord of the Flies

By Kaye Otto

Fill in the Blanks

In Chapter 7 what was it that Ralph experienced for the first time?

Open Ended

What is the significance of the boar that Ralph landed his spear on? (2 points)

Open Ended

Why is it that Simon finds it easy to run through the jungle at night to let Piggy know the others will be arriving home much later?

Multiple Choice

What type of figurative language is used here:

"The darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist's chair unreality."

• parallelism

• simile

• metaphor

• allegory

Multiple Choice

What do Ralph's day-dreams indicate to the reader?

• I don't know

• He was from a very wealthy family

• He is frustrated with the other children and just needs to "get away"

• He is home-sick

Open Ended

Who explores Castle Rock? What is Simon's function here?

Multiple Choice

Why don't any of the boys notice what was happening in the sky the night the parachuter landed?

• They were playing in Castle Rock

• They were sleeping

• They were in the middle of a fight

• They could not hear anything over the fire's crackling.

Multiple Choice

What type of literary device is the following:

"Simon, walking in front of Ralph, felt a flicker of incredulity - a. beast with claws that scratched, that sat on a mountain-top, that left no tracks and yetwas not fast enough to catch Samneric."

• motif

• sarcasm

• imagery

• symbolism

Multiple Choice

What type of figurative language is in the following sentence:

"The leaves were roaring like the sea."

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• irony

Multiple Choice

Figurative language has been important throughout our story. What type of figurative language is this:

"but there were other lights in the sky, that moved, winked, or went out"

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Open Ended

Symbolism is a significant part of the story. Explain what the meaning is behind these three images (according to Golding):

Piggy's glasses

the island

hair

Fill in the Blanks

At one point, Piggy was the most clear-sighted of the boys. In Chapter 6, who takes that position from him?

Multiple Choice

Who is the first person to discover the "Beast from the Air"?

• Roger

• Jack

• Ralph

• Samneric

Fill in the Blanks

The fact that the boys are becoming more savage each day is paralleled by what greater event in the story?