Lord of the Fliesby Elie Wiesel
Directions:
 Cut the sections apart and attach to your answers. Answer
each question in complete sentences.
 Be prepared for a brief assessment on each section.
Reading calendar:
Day 1: Chapters 1-3
Day 2: Chapters 4
Day 3: Chapter 5-6
Day 4: Chapter 7-9
Day 5: Chapters 10-12
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Lord of the Flies Chapters 1-3
1. What is the setting of the story?
2. What events led to the boys’ arrival on the island?
3. Why couldn’t Jack kill the pig?
4. Who emerged as leader of the group? Why?
5. What power did the conch give the person who holds it?
6. How did the snake-thing make the boys feel?
7. What did the group decide to do to be rescued?
8. How was Piggy indirectly helpful in starting the fire?
9. What important task did Piggy forget to do for Ralph?
10. Which do you think was more important to the boys’ survival:
hunting for meat or building shelters? Why?
11. Why was it so difficult for Ralph and Jack to communicate
with each other?
Lord of the Flies Chapter 4
1. What do the first two paragraphs describe? Be specific. We
will discuss the symbolical significance of this description in
class.
2. What have the littleuns grown used to because of their eating
habits?
3. Who are the three boys building sand castles? Who is the
leader of the three? What reason is given for him being leader?
4. Of what duty have Roger and Maurice just been relieved?
Why? Of what does Maurice feel a bit guilty?
5. What catches Henry’s interest on the beach?
6. What almost hits Roger? What keeps Roger from throwing the
stones at Henry?
7. What is Jack doing to himself and why?
8. Who is all with Jack in the forest?
9. What does Piggy suggest making that Jack ignores?
10. What happened to the smoke on the mountain? How does
Ralph react?
11. What does Jack return with? What do the boys chant upon
their return?
12. What happens to Piggy after he yells at Jack for letting the fire go
out?
13. What does Maurice pretend to be?
14. What does Ralph decide to do at the end of the chapter?
15. Who cries all the time? Why?
Lord of the Flies Chapters 5-6
1. What does Ralph decide about the meeting that he is about to
have? What does this say about how Ralph is changing?
2. What does Ralph start to realize about his appearance?
3. What did Ralph, Jack, and Piggy not have the “wit” to do?
4. What is the first thing Ralph lists as something that the boys
have failed to do? What is the second complaint? What is the
third complaint?
5. What do all the littleuns laugh about while Ralph is talking?
6. What is Ralph’s fourth command?
7. What is the last thing that Ralph tries to talk about before he
loses control?
8. What does Jack have to say about the littluns fear?
9. What did the boy named Phil think and saw? What did he
really see?
10. How does Maurice get the littluns to stop crying?
11. According to Perceval, where does the beast live?
12. What does Simon suggest about the beast?
13. What do the boys vote on?
14. Why does Ralph not blow the conch?
15. Why is Piggy afraid of Ralph giving up control?
Lord of the Flies Chapters 7-9
1. Why did Ralph daydream about home?
2. What game did the boys play after spearing the wild boar?
3. Did all the boys believe they had seen a beast near the
pink granite?
4. Why did Jack form his own group?
5. What did Jack call his group? How is that a fitting name?
6. How did the boys kill the sow?
7. How is the sow-killing incident like an initiation?
8. Why was the stick sharpened at both ends?
9. What was the “Lord of the Flies”?
10. Was the “Lord of the Flies” really speaking to Simon?
How do you know?
11. Was Simon actually “batty”? What evidence do you
have?
12. What did Simon discover about the beast?
13. What was Simon trying to do when the boys kill him?
14. Why did the boys kill Simon?
15. When the boys killed Simon, did they know what they
were doing?
Lord of the Flies Chapter 10-12
1. Who is left in Ralph’s group?
2. What does Jack build to keep away trespassers?
3. Why do Jack and Roger invade Ralph’s camp at night?
4. What do Ralph and Piggy decided to do after they are
attacked?
5. What happens to Piggy?
6. Why is the stick in Chapter 12 sharpened at both ends?
7. Now that Ralph is alone, what do you think he should do?
8. Does Ralph now believe that Jack will kill him?
9. At the end of the story, how do the rescuers know
someone is on the island?
10. Do you think the naval officer believes that two boys
were killed?
11. Why does Ralph cry?