Quiz
1. Whose responsibility is it to maintain the first signal fire?
(A) Piggy’s
(B) The hunters’
(C) Sam and Eric’s
(D) The littluns’
2. What powers does Jack ascribe to the beast after Simon’s murder?
(A) Immortality and the power to change shape
(B) Telepathy and the power to change shape
(C) Immortality and telepathy
(D) Enormous strength and murderous cunning
3. How does the first boy disappear?
(A) Roger crushes him with a boulder.
(B) The other boys kill him with their bare hands.
(C) A boar gores him.
(D) He burns to death when the signal fire ignites the forest.
4. Who is the first boy to disappear?
(A) Piggy
(B) Simon
(C) Clark
(D) A littlun
5. Where does the beast go during the day, according to one littlun?
(A) Into the ocean
(B) Into the air
(C) Into the fire
(D) Into the caves near the Castle Rock
6. Who sees the dead parachutist first?
(A) Ralph
(B) Sam and Eric
(C) Jack
(D) Piggy
7. Which character speaks to the Lord of the Flies?
(A) Phil
(B) Ralph
(C) Piggy
(D) Simon
8. What lures the navy ship to the island?
(A) The fire in the jungle
(B) The roar of the beast
(C) The signal fire
(D) The shortwave radio
9. Whom does Jack strike shortly after his first kill?
(A) Ralph
(B) Francis
(C) Piggy
(D) Roger
10. When Piggy is killed, what else is destroyed?
(A) The shortwave radio
(B) The conch shell
(C) The Lord of the Flies
(D) The signal fire
11. What is Ralph’s first act upon being elected leader?
(A) Planning the building of the signal fire
(B) Naming Piggy his chief advisor
(C) Naming Simon the leader of the mystics
(D) Naming Jack the leader of the hunters
12. What object does Ralph clutch when he talks about Simon’s murder?
(A) The sow’s head
(B) The conch shell
(C) Piggy’s glasses
(D) A spear
13. Who is the only boy to kill someone on the island by himself?
(A) Piggy
(B) Jack
(C) Roger
(D) Robert
14. What does Jack suggest the boys use as the “pig” in their dance-like reenactment of the hunt?
(A) A littlun
(B) Piggy
(C) Ralph
(D) A real pig
15. Which boy treats the littluns with the most kindness?
(A) Simon
(B) Jack
(C) Piggy
(D) Ralph
16. Which boy would rather hunt than build huts?
(A) Simon
(B) Jack
(C) Piggy
(D) Ralph
17. Where is Jack’s tribe headquarters?
(A) Next to Ralph’s
(B) On the mountain of the beast
(C) Deep in the jungle
(D) At the Castle Rock
18. What tool or tools do the boys use to make fire?
(A) A flint and steel
(B) Ralph’s tinderbox
(C) Piggy’s glasses
(D) Matches from the airplane
19. What is the boys’ home country?
(A) England
(B) Australia
(C) New Zealand
(D) Canada
20. Who kills Piggy?
(A) Ralph
(B) Roger
(C) Sam and Eric
(D) Simon
21. What surrounds Simon’s body as it floats into the sea?
(A) Sharks
(B) Eels
(C) A cloud of blood
(D) Glowing fish
22. Who knocks the Lord of the Flies to the ground?
(A) Ralph
(B) Roger
(C) Simon
(D) Piggy
23. On what obstruction does the dead parachutist become tangled?
(A) Tree limbs
(B) Jagged rocks
(C) The roof of the hut
(D) The Castle Rock
24. Who tells Jack where Ralph is hiding in Chapter 12?
(A) Simon
(B) Roger
(C) A littlun
(D) Sam and Eric
25. Which boy does not dance at Jack’s first feast?
(A) Simon
(B) Ralph
(C) Piggy
(D) Jack
