Plot
Symbolism
Characters
Vocabulary Unit 6
Wildcard!
100
What does Simon discover at the top of the mountain?
A parachutist that the boys believed to be the "beast"
100
What item in the novel represents the boys' connection to civilization?
What is the conch shell
100
Who is described as "fat", "intellectual," asthmatic, and needs glasses. He represents the scientific, rational side of civilization, and social order.
Piggy
100
What word means silly or empty of meaning or value?
Inane
100
What vocabulary word is described as stopping and beginning again, sporadic?
Intermittent
200
What happens when the boys are dancing and chanting around the fire at Jack's feast?
The boys kill Simon when he comes out of the forest.
200
What element in the novel represents the theme "evil is inherent in all people?"
The Lord of the Flies
200
Who seems to be connected with nature and has an innate, spiritual goodness?
Simon
200
What word means unquestionable or indisputable?
Indubitable
200
Who is the last to remain loyal to Ralph?
Samneric
300
What do Samneric warn Ralph of when he approaches them at the gate?
Jack plans to hunt Ralph
300
The following quote is an example of what theme from LotF? "Even if [Simon] shut his eyes, the sow's head still remained like an after-image. The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life."
The loss of innocence
300
Who paints his face to liberate himself "from the shame of self-consciousness"?
Jack
300
What word is defined as easily irritated?
Testy
300
At the end of the novel the hunters go by a different name. What is this name?
Savages
400
How do the boys react when the realize they have been rescued?
They all start shaking and sobbing
400
The following passage represents what theme from LotF? "In his other life Maurice had received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand. Now, though there was no parent to let fall a heavy hand, Maurice still felt the unease of wrongdoing.”
Civilization vs Savagery
400
Who is described as "fair haired," having a face that proclaims no devil; committed to civilization and morality?
Ralph
400
What word is defined as a principle idea, theme or element?
Motif
400
Who are the three kids who die on the island? How do they die?
Boy with the mulberry mark - disappears when they build their first fire and the forests catches on fire. Simon - attacked during the feast and brutally murdered. Piggy - Roger pushes a giant boulder on top of him.
500
How does Piggy respond to Simon's death?
He is in denial of the cruelty of the event and insists that it was an accident rather than murder.
500
What theme does the following quote depict? "Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! said the head ... "you knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close close!"
Theme of innate human evil
500
Who represents the common folk who easily follow the lead of others into savagery when there is no enforced structure in society?
The 'littluns'
500
What word is defined as keenness in observing and understanding?
Perspicacity
500
What scenario from LotF shows a herd mentality that can lead individuals to feel anonymous?
When all of the boys participated in the cruel and brutal murder of poor, innocent Simon. "At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.”
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