Characters
Who is the first boy to realize that the monster on the island is not a real?
Simon
In the first few chapters, who gets to speak at a meeting?
Whoever is holding the conch.
Name Ralph's three top priorities in the first few chapters?
Build a fire, shelter, and have jobs.
“Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong – we hunt! If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat!"
Jack
What does Jack's group become?
The hunters.
What happens when the signal fire goes out?
A ship passes by.
At what point in the story does Ralph realize that he has a darkness inside as well.
Simon's death.
“We’ve got to have special people for looking after the fire. Any day there may be a ship out there"
Ralph
Who explains Simon's death as an accident or an escalation of mob mentality?
Piggy
What comes down from the sky in chapter 6?
A dead pilot on a parachute.
Say the celebratory chant of the boys after the successful hunt.
“Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood”
“We’re going to have fun on this island. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island! So don’t try it on, my poor misguided boy or else—"
"Lord of the Flies", or the severed sow's head.
Who terrorizes the littlun Henry by throwing rocks at him?
Roger
What urgent message does Simon carry in chapter 9 that he never gets to say?
That the beast is not real.
Who mocks Jack’s hunters as “boys armed with sticks”?
Ralph.
“I don’t know. He didn’t say. He got angry and made us tie _______ up. He’s been” – he giggled excitedly – “he’s been tied up for hours, waiting – ”
Wilfred
In Chapter 10 after Simon's death, who says that they left the dance early, too ashamed to admit what really happened?
Samneric (Sam and Eric)
When Jack’s tribe steals the glasses in chapter 10, Ralph and Piggy think they are coming for what instead?
The conch.
Who is the first boy to die on the island?
One of the “littluns”—the boy with the mulberry-colored birthmark -- after the huge forest blaze in Chapter 2.
"What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What's grownups going to think?"
Piggy