LOTF Chapter 2: Fire on the Mountain

A new rule is made: at meetings, who is allowed to speak?

• Only the older boys

• The person who is holding the conch

• Only Ralph

• Only Jack

What does Piggy tell the boys at the meeting?

• That they should have fun on the island

• That people with glasses are more intelligent

• That nobody knows where they are

• That they should look for fruit

What does the little boy with the mulberry-birthmark say he saw?

• A ship

• A shark

• A group of pigs

• A snake-thing he calls 'beastie'

What does Ralph say is the most important thing to do?

• Keep a signal fire going so they can be rescued

• Hunt

• Keep a cooking fire going for food and warmth

• Make a list of who is there

How does the group react to the suggestion that they should make a fire?

• They are angry about it

• They are unhappy

• They rush off to do it excitedly

• They feel too lazy to do it

When Piggy says about the boys 'Acting like a crowd of kids', what kind of device is this?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Onomatopoeia

What do they use to light a fire?

• A piece of glass that washed up on shore

• Piggy's glasses

• The sundial Piggy made

• Flint

What responsibility has Jack taken on for his choir?

• They will keep the fire going

• They will cook meat

• They will build shelters

• They will keep watch at night

Towards the end of the chapter, what's wrong with the fire?

• It's too small

• It's creating too much smoke

• It has gone out

• They have lost control of it

What happens to the boy with mulberry birthmark?

• He gets burned helping to put out the fire.

• He disappears and has probably died.

• He declares himself chief.

• He gets lost and cries until the older boys find him.