Reading Comprehension
Jack decides to make his camp at the Castle Rock because
a. it is close to the beast
b. it is a perfect fort
c. it is the will of the beast
d. it is a savage thing to do
b. it is a perfect fort
In Freudian psychology, Ralph represents the
a. id
b. ego
c. superego
d. spiritual consciousness
b. ego
"And you shut up! Who are you anyway? Sitting there telling people what to do. You can't hunt, you can't sing..."
Jack
“They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate” (71).
a. metaphor
b. simile
c. personification
d. alliteration
e. allusion
a. metaphor
Which is NOT present: “But a sign came down from the world of grown-ups, though at the time there was no child awake to read it. There was a sudden bright explosion and corkscrew tail across the sky; then darkness again and stars. There was a speck above the island. A figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs” (130).
a. dramatic irony
b. metaphor
c. visual imagery
d. repetition
e. simile
e. simile
Jack and his tribe hunt Ralph in order to
a. kill and make a trophy out of him
b. force him to join the tribe
c. torture him
d. make him pray to the beast
a. kill and make a trophy out of him
In Freudian psychology, Jack represents the
a. id
b. ego
c. superego
d. spiritual consciousness
a. id
"This head is for the beast. It's a gift."
Jack
“Several huts, fibrous lumps, big as rugby balls” (80).
a. metaphor
b. simile
c. personification
d. alliteration
e. allusion
b. simile
Which of the following is NOT present: “Colors drained from water and trees and pink surfaces of red rock, and the white and brown clouds brooded. Nothing prospered but the flies who blackened their lord and made the spilt guts look like a heap of glistening coal.”
a. synecdoche
b. personification
c. metaphor
d. polysyndeton
e. symbolism
a. synecdoche
The boys who kick over the littleuns’ sandcastles are
a. Jack and Roger
b. Maurice and Roger
c. Ralph and Piggy
d. Wilfred and Henry
b. Maurice and Roger
In Freudian psychology, Piggy represents the
a. id
b. ego
c. superego
d. spiritual consciousness
c. superego
"He's a proper chief, isn't he?"
Roger
“Down, down the waters went, whispering like the wind among the heads of the forest” (144).
a. hyperbole
b. synecdoche
c. personification
d. alliteration
e. allusion
c. personification
Which of the following is NOT present: “The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble. The strange attendant creatures with their fiery eyes and trailing vapors, busied themselves round his head. The body lifted a fraction of an inch and a bubble of air escaped from the mouth with a wet plop. Then it turned gently in the water [as his] dead body moved out to the open sea”
a. visual imagery
b. polysyndeton
c. onomatopoeia
d. symbolism
e. metaphor
b. polysyndeton
The “beast from the air” is first seen by
a. Jack
b. Simon
c. Sam and Eric
d. Percival
c. Sam and Eric
Simon represents the
a. id
b. ego
c. superego
d. spiritual consciousness
d. spiritual consciousness
"What have you been doing, having a war or something?”
the Naval Officer
“The leaves were roaring like the sea” (134).
a. metaphor and simile
b. hyperbole and personification
c. simile and pathetic fallacy
d. alliteration and allusion
e. pathetic fallacy and metaphor
a. metaphor and simile
Which of the following is NOT present in this quotation: “The whole space was walled with dark aromatic bushes, and was a bowl of heat and light...He squatted down, parted the leaves and looked into the clearing. Nothing moved but a pair of gaudy butterflies. Evening was advancing towards the island; the sounds of the bright fantastic birds, the bee sounds, even the cry of the gulls...grew fainter” ( Golding 57).
a. aural imagery
b. organic imagery
c. visual imagery
d. thermal imagery
e. alliteration
b. organic imagery
The novel is written in which point of view?
third person omniscient
What does the Lord of the Flies represent?
the evil that exists within humans
"What have I done? I like him and I wanted us to be rescued-... I've done nothing, I only wanted to keep a fire."
Ralph
Identify TWO: “The silence continued, breathless and heavy and full of shame” (177).
pathetic fallacy & polysyndeton
Which of the following is NOT a contributor of building Simon as a Christ figure?
a. “You’ll get back to where you came from.”
b. “Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage”
c. He communes with the Lord of the Flies before he is killed.
d. “The strange attendant creatures, with their fiery eyes and trailing vapors, busied themselves round his head.”
e. He dies trying to share a saving truth with the boys.
f. He is originally part of Jack’s choir.
f. He is originally part of Jack’s choir.