Chapter 1 Part 1
1. What is the name of ‘the fair one’?
Ralph
1. What are the names of the twins?
Answer: Sam and Eric
1. What is distinctive about the little boy who speaks about the ‘beastie’?
Answer: He has a mulberry-coloured birthmark on his face
1. What is Jack wearing while hunting?
Answer: Just a tattered pair of shorts
1. What is the name of the ‘littleun’ who goes ‘batty’?
Answer: Percival
2. How did the boys come to be on the island?
Answer: Plane crash
2. Who becomes the ‘chief’?
Answer: Ralph
2. What is Ralph’s plan for rescue?
Answer: To create a signal fire
2. What is he using to hunt?
Answer: A sharpened stick
2. What were the littleuns doing on the beach when Maurice and Roger appeared?
Answer: Building sand castles.
3. How does Ralph call together the boys?
Answer: He blows the conch (must say ‘conch’)
3. What role is given to the choirboys?
Answer: The hunters
3. Who is allowed to speak at meetings?
Answer: Whoever is holding the conch
3. What is Ralph doing when Jack finds him?
Answer: Building shelters
3. What do the boys use to paint their faces?
Answer: Clay and charcoal
4. What illness does Piggy suffer from?
Answer: Asthma
4. Why does Piggy get upset with Ralph?
Answer: He betrays his secret – his nickname.
4. How do they start the fire?
Answer: With Piggy’s glasses
4. Who is helping him?
Answer: Simon
4. What does Ralph see which excites him?
Answer: Smoke on the horizon.
5. Who does Ralph think will save them?
Answer: His dad
5. What reason does Jack give for not stabbing the pig?
Answer: He was choosing a place.
5. Who first notices the runaway fire?
Answer: Piggy
5. What are Ralphs two reasons for needing shelters?
Answer: In case it rains and protection from the ‘beastie’.
5. What is the hunters’ chant?
Answer: ‘Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.’