Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Lord of the Flies Test Review

Post your true/false questions here! Please post 5. Read previous ones before you post so you don't duplicate.

Also, please post one possible short essay question.

32 comments:

  1. short essay question: Explain the significance of the fallen parachuter and what he symbolizes.

    true/false questions:
    1. Jack is the one who thinks the beast is 'within us'
    2. A few boys think that the beast rises from the sand each night.
    3. Piggy's glasses are stolen by Jack and his 'tribe'.
    4. The boys never consider the beast to be a ghost.
    5. The boys are constantly influenced by the grownups, even though there are none on the island.

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  2. 1)Simon was originally part of Jack's choir.
    2)A littlun sees the parachutist's plane go down.
    3)Piggy's hair grew longer than the rest of the boys'.
    4)Ralph was the oldest of the boys.
    5)Piggy's glasses were more important to Jack than the conch.


    Essay question:
    Psychologically, why did Jack hate Piggy from the beginning?

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  3. True/False:
    1. Golding unintentionally used symbolism in his novel.
    2. Percival said that a beast fell from the sky.
    3. When Jack gets excited he stands on his head.
    4. The true beast is within the children.
    5. Simon was killed by a rock pushed by Rodger.

    Short Essay:
    What does Rodger symbolize?

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  4. In the end of the book Ralph's insistence of a fire lead to a group effort to build one, and ultimately got them rescued. T/F

    The facetious behavior of the boys about the decapitated pig amused Simon. T/F

    Upon seeing Jack and the boys rolling boulders into the water, Ralph joined them. T/F

    Jack was responsible for all three acknowledged deaths on the island. T/F

    Jack's hunters were a perfunctory group for watching the fire. T/F

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  5. True/False
    1. Ralph is the only character who did not use face paint.
    2. Only one lens of Piggy's glasses breaks.
    3. Simon was the first boy to die on the island.
    4. Simon is the ego from Freud's trinity of the human psyche.
    5. Ralph broke the Lord of the Flies.

    Short Essay
    1. Explain how the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual.

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  6. 1. Simon left from the mountain to tell the boys that there was not a beast.
    2.The island can be compared to the Garden of Eden
    3.Jack is a symbol of democracy.
    4.The boys elect Jack as the leader because of his good looks.
    5.Piggy is the first character killed in the book
    Essay Question: Describe how characters in the book relate to the idea of the Id, Ego, and Superego.

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  7. True/False:
    1. Jack was the first to lead all the boys to the top of the mountain for the fire.

    2. Ralph taught Piggy how to blow the conch.

    3.

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  8. True/False Questions
    1. Sam and Eric were present at Simon's death.
    2. Jack was the oldest boy on the island.
    3. Piggy accidentaly broke his own glasses.
    4. Castle Rock is the home of the hunters.
    5. It is ironic that Jack's fire is the one that results in the boy's rescue.

    Short Essay Question
    Discuss irony throughout the novel and its significance.

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  9. True/False Questions
    1. Ralph never agrees with the idea of hunting.
    2. Simon never beleives in the beast.
    3. The boys immediatly relize they are on an abandoned island.
    4. A littlun is the first to introduce the beast to the island.
    5. Ralph considers giving up his position as the "leader"

    5.

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  10. 1. The place of assembly was in the shape of a rectangle.
    2. Ralph felt guilty when he speared the boar on the snout.
    3. Jack thinks that hunting is more important than fire.
    4. Simon was killed by the Lord of the Flies.

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  11. Ture/ False Questions:
    1. Simon knocks the Lord of the Flies to the ground
    2. Henry thought that the beast came from the water
    3. Jack, Ralph and Roger go up the mountain to hunt the Beast
    4. Simon was in the choir
    5. Ralph and Piggy are the only ones who try to make the shelters

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  12. True/False Questions:
    1. Ralph had the knife and it represents violence.
    2. There was never a fire on the island, it was just a metaphor for the battle within each boy.
    3. Piggy broke his own glasses.
    4. The fire always stayed on the mountain.
    5. The boys never acknowledged that they needed adults.

    Essay Question:
    Explain how the island changed the boys

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  14. True/False questions:

    1. While being chased Ralph ends up in the same clearing as Simon with the Lord of the Flies.
    2. There were 4 definite boys who died by the end.
    3. The man who found the boys related their situation to Treasure Island.
    4. Roger volunteered to go up the mountain with Ralph and Jack.
    5. Jack thought he should be leader because he had the knife.

    essay question:
    How was the beast actually within the boys?

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  15. True/False:
    1. Ralph kills a pig during the book
    2. Piggy and Ralph were a part of Simons murder.
    3. The liluns look up to Roger
    4. Samneric turned against Ralph
    5. Piggy was hunted and killed.

    Could Simon be considered a leader figure at any point through out the book? Explain

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  16. 1. Jack's original name on the island was Jack
    2. Ralph finds the conch in the beginning
    3. Robert is the pig in the re-inaction of the hunt.
    4. It is ironic that Ralph is running from the fire in the end
    5. The adult at the end is ashamed of how these British boys have lost all sense of civilization so quickly

    Short Essay:
    Explain the psychological allegory Golding may have intended through characters in this novel.

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  17. 1. Simon is obsessed with keeping the fire going
    2. Roger is an important figure throughout the book
    3. Ralph knew about the Lord of the Flies from Simon
    4. Piggy, Ralph, and SamnEric left the feast early and didn't know about Simon
    5. Jack uses the mask to control the boys

    Simon keeps everyone on the island together. Agree/Disagree and explain.

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  18. True/False

    1. Piggy spotted the conch first.
    2. There were 12 boys total on the island.
    3. Piggy was the last boy to die.
    4. Sam and Eric told Jack were Ralph was hiding.
    5. The boys were all school friends before they came to the island.

    Essay Question:
    What was the dominant impression of the whole book?

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  19. True/False Questions:
    1. Sam and Eric were in the choir.
    2. Roger was almost killed in the "Pig Game".
    3. Ralph never killed a pig.
    4. Piggy was killed in the island fire.
    5. Simon was part of Jack's choir.

    Essay Question:
    Discuss the different political structures of Jack's society and Ralph's society.

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  20. 1. Jack is always jealous of Ralph's position.
    2. Piggy never lost hope in Ralph.
    3. Ralph never lost hope in himself.
    4. The meat was the only reason everyone joined Jack's tribe.
    5. Piggy's death was accidental.

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  21. 1. Jack accepts Piggy in the end.
    2. The man at the end saw the fire that Ralph had made
    3. Sam and Eric were taken from the shelters by Jack
    4. The man who saved them in the end did not think the boys were savages
    5. Simon is afraid of the beast

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  22. 1. Ralph's red hair symbolizes his determination to the boys that he leads.
    2. The officers were proud of how the boys were able to handle themselves on the island.
    3. Roger took Piggy's glasses.
    4. Ralph's three options of escaping the savages are: break the line of boys, climb a tree, or hide.
    5. William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies as a response to Conch Island.

    Short essay question: Why do you think that Golding made the officers, who rescued the boys, act in the manner that they did. What point or purpose did that serve in the book?

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  23. 1. Ralph's mother has always been present in his life.
    2. Piggy is very concerned about his mother.
    3. Ralph and Eric beat up the hunters.
    4. Roger resists throwing rocks at the littlun on the beach.
    5. Ralph hides in Simon's hideaway during the manhunt.

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  24. a. we read that Simon visits his personal spot in the forest at least 2 times
    b. the first person to see the parachuter was Ralph
    c. Roger is the one who fainted in the choir the first day
    d. percival follows jacks group and sees the Lord of the Flies

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  25. True/ False

    1. Simon agrees that there is a beast on the island
    2. Ralph did not participate in any of the hunts prior to the murder of Simon
    3. Sam and Eric tell Jack where Ralph is hiding
    4. In the beginning of the book, Piggy is the one who first notices the conch shell
    5. Jack broke the conch shell in the end

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  26. T or F

    1.Piggy was killed by Robert.
    2.The Lord of the Flies is not the Beast
    3.Jack took Piggy's glasses
    4.The conch was never broken

    Essay Question
    Psychologically, why is Piggy hated by Jack?

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  27. 1. Percival was the first to beleive there was a beast.
    2. Piggy was the only one whose decisions were influenced by the adults.
    3. The naval officer thought that the boys would have gotten along or survived better.
    4. Sam and Eric never became their own individual person.
    5. The Lord of the Flies was only significant to Simon.

    Essay Question: Could Jack represent the devil in this novel? Why or why not?

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  28. True/False:
    1. Roger was the first to paint his face.
    2. The conch was broken when Jack threw a spear at Piggy.
    3. Piggy convinced the boys to make Raph chief instead of Jack.
    4. Jack originally found the sow that later was decapitated and hung on a stick to become the Lord of the Flies.
    5. Roger had Piggy's glasses hung on his belt in the last scene when they were "rescued."
    Short answer: What was hair symbolic of thorughout the book?

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  29. True/False

    1. Jack put the pig's head on the spear as a prize.
    2. The boys build more than three shelters.
    3. Ralph cried in the end because he was going home.
    4. Piggy was stabbed by Jack.
    5. The mulberry boy started the fear of the beast.

    Essay:
    What does Piggy represent within the group of boys? Why can he not be a leader?

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  30. 1. Jack never wanted to be rescued.
    2. Ralph has to repeat himself when the officer asks him about two boys being killed.
    3. The conch is referred to as "magic."
    4. After the first feast, Ralph is jeleaous of Jack's power.
    5. Piggy participated in the first hunt.

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  32. True or False:
    ____ Ralph was tall and fair skinned
    ____ Jack had to wear glasses
    ____ Simon was the chief in the beginning
    ____ Jack was in the choir

    Short essay:
    Explain how Simon could be described as Christ with specific examples from the text.

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