Lord of the Flies
Chapter 1 (​36 points
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Name:______________________________
1. Why is “The Sound of the Shell” an appropriate title for this chapter? (​2 ​ points)
2. What is the “scar” that is repeatedly mentioned?
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3. At the beginning of the chapter what are Ralph and Piggy’s main concerns?
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(​2 points)
4. What is the symbol of authority that Ralph uses? Why does this object represent
authority? (​4 points)
5. Describe the scene, in your own words, when Jack emerges with the choir. What are
they wearing? What is​ their demeanor? (​4 points)
6. Who wins the title of chief? How
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does this boy win? (​4 points)
7. In what ways are Ralph and Jack similar in personality? In what ways are the two
boys different? (​4 points)
8. Why, in your opinion, does Jack hesitate when he lifts the knife to kill the piglet? What
does
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Jack promise will happen next time? (​4 points)
Journal Entry: Write a paragraph that describes the kind of leader you think the boys
need. Whom would you have selected and why? Provide a claim of who you would pick
and cite evidence from the
​ texts that supports why you would pick that boy. (​10 points)
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Character Analysis ​(​25 points)
Name:___________________________
Provide information on each of the following characters based on Chapter 1 (​5 points
each).
Ralph:
Piggy:
Jack:
Simon:
Sam n’ Eric:
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Chapter 2 (2​ points each, 14 total)
Name:______________________________
1. What rule concerning the conch is made?
2. What is the “beastie”?
3. What is the plan of rescue devised by the boys?
4. How do the boys start the fire?
5. What happens to the fire?
6. What happens to the little boy with the mark on his face?
7. How is Piggy’s point of view different from the other boys?
Chapter 4
1. What did the boys do in the morning? (p. 58)
2. What sort of things would happen during midday? (p. 58-59)
3. What two literary terms are used in the following quotation: “The sun gazed down like
an angry eye” (p.58)? ​Hyperbole, personification, simile, metaphor.
4. What are the littluns Henry, Percival and Johnny doing at the bar of the little river? (p.
59-60)
5. What do Roger and Maurice do to the sandcastles? (p. 60)
6. For what reason do some of the boys smear themselves with colored clay? (p. 63-64)
7. What does Piggy want the boys to make? (p. 64)
8. Why couldn’t the boy’s signal the ship that Ralph spotted on the horizon? (p. 67-68)
9. What are Jack and the other choir boys chanting in this chapter as they arrive back
from their hunt? (p.69)
10. Where were Jack and the choir boys when Ralph spotted the ship? (p. 67-69)
11. What accomplishment do the hunters make? (p. 69)
12. What happens to Piggy’s specs? How did this happen? (p. 71)
13. What is the significance of the title “Long Hair and Painted Faces”?
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Chapter 4
Close Reading: (p. 61-62)
Reread the scene in which Roger torments Henry. Write down lines that seem
frightening and menacing in this scene.
When Henry tired of his play and wandered off along the beach, Roger
followed him, keeping beneath the palms and drifting casually in the
same direction. Henry walked at a distance from the palms and the shade
because he was too young to keep himself out of the sun. He went down
the beach and busied himself at the water’s edge. The great Pacific tide
was coming in and every few seconds the relatively still water of the lagoon heaved forwards an inch. There were creatures that lived in this last
fling of the sea, tiny transparencies that came questing in with the water
over the hot, dry sand. With impalpable organs of sense they examined
this new field. Perhaps food had appeared where at the last incursion
there had been none; bird droppings, insects perhaps, any of the strewn
detritus of landward life. Like a myriad of tiny teeth in a saw, the transparencies
came scavenging over the beach.
This was fascinating to Henry. He poked about with a bit of stick, that
itself was wave-worn and whitened and a vagrant, and tried to control
the motions of the scavengers. He made little runnels that the tide filled
and tried to crowd them with creatures. He became absorbed beyond
mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things.
He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide,
his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the
illusion of mastery. He squatted on his hams at the water’s edge, bowed,
with a shock of hair falling over his forehead and past his eyes, and the
afternoon sun emptied down invisible arrows.
Roger waited too. At first he had hidden behind a great palm; but
Henry’s absorption with the transparencies was so obvious that at last he
stood out in full view. He looked along the beach. Percival had gone off,
crying, and Johnny was left in triumphant possession of the castles, He
sat there, crooning to himself and throwing sand at an imaginary Percival.
Beyond him, Roger could see the platform and the glints of spray where
Ralph and Simon and Piggy and Maurice were diving in the pool. He
listened carefully but could only just hear them.
A sudden breeze shook the fringe of palm trees, so that the fronds
tossed and fluttered. Sixty feet above Roger, several nuts, fibrous lumps
as big as rugby balls, were loosed from their stems. They fell about him
with a series of hard thumps and he was not touched. Roger did not
consider his escape, but looked from the nuts to Henry and back again.
The subsoil beneath the palm trees was a raised beach, and generations
of palms had worked loose in this the stones that had lain on the sands
of another shore. Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed, and threw it
at Henry— threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time,
bounced five yards to Henry’s right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a
handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round
Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here,
invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting
child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the
law. Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of
him and was in ruins.
Henry was surprised by the plopping sounds in the water. He abandoned the noiseless transparencies and pointed at the center of the spreading rings like a setter. This side and that the stones fell, and Henry turned
obediently but always too late to see the stones in the air. At last he
saw one and laughed, looking for the friend who was teasing him. But
Roger had whipped behind the palm again, was leaning against it breathing quickly, his eyelids fluttering. Then Henry lost interest in stones and
wandered off.
Ch. 5 Beast from Water
19 points
1. What type of land does Ralph choose as a walking path and why? (p. 76)
2. What does Ralph begin to realize he dislikes so much? (p. 76-77)
3. What is the meeting place shaped like? (p.77)
4. Where does Piggy stand during the assembly and what does this indicate? (p.
78)
5. What five major things does Ralph address during the assembly? (p. 79-83)
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6. What rule does Ralph make regarding the fire (p. 81)
7. Who had the littlun Phil see wandering about the forest at night and what was he
doing? (p. 84-85)
8. Where does Percival say the beast comes out of? (p. 88)
9. What does Simon state the beast may be? (p. 89).
10. What does Jack say he will do to the beast, if there is even one? (p. 91)
11. What do Ralph and Piggy say the boys are turning into? (p. 92)
12. What do Ralph, Simon, and Piggy wish they had by the end of the chapter? (p.
94)
Chapter 6 Questions
1. As the boys are sleeping, what is going on in the sky above the island? (p. 95-96)
2. What is the “Beast from Air”? (p. 95-96)
3. What is making a flapping noise in the darkness as the wind blows? (p. 98)
4. What are the twins Sam and Eric doing awake in the darkness? (p. 96-98)
5. What do the twins wake Ralph up to tell him? (p.98-99)
6. Find an example of personification on page 99.
7. When Ralph calls a meeting what do Samneric tell the others? (p. 100)
8. What is Piggy’s job while the other biguns go out to hunt the beast? (p.101)
9. Why does Ralph insist on going first into the cave? (p. 104)
10. ​What does Sam and Eric's description of the beast tell us about human psychology?
"It was furry. There was something moving behind its head--wings. the beast moved
too---" "that was awful. It kind of sat up---" "There were eyes---" "Teeth---" "Claws--"
"The beast followed us---" "I saw it slinking behind the trees---."
Chapter 7 Questions
1. Where are all the bigun’s except for Piggy going again? (think back to chapter 6)
2. What does Ralph long for? (p. 109)
3. What does Ralph daydream about? (p. 112)
4. When the boar charges, what does Ralph do? (p. 113)
5. What does the group of boys do to Robert while reenacting the pig hunt? (p. 114-115)
6. What does Jack suggest the boys use in their next “kill the pig” game? (p. 115)
7. Who volunteers to go back through the jungle by himself and tell Piggy they’ll be back
after dark? (p. 117)
8. Which three boys climb up the mountain in the dark looking for the beast? (p.
119-120)
9. What do Ralph, Jack, and Roger find on top of the mountain that they believe is the
beastie? (p. 122-123 and think back to chapter 6)
Chapter 8
1. Who calls the assembly to discuss the beast?
2. What lie does Jack tell the others at the assembly?
3. During the assembly, how many voted that Ralph shouldn't be chief?
4. What does Jack do before he leaves the assembly?
5. What is Piggy’s idea concerning the fire?
6. What feast does Piggy supply for Ralph and the fire builders?
7. How does Roger help in killing the sow?
8. What do the boys do with the pig after they kill it?
9. What does Jack’s raiding party take from the group left on the beach? Burning sticks
10. What does Jack offer the boys from Ralph’s group and why is this so tempting to
them?
11. What does Simon discover when he goes into the jungle by himself?
12. The hunters get a new name in this chapter. What is it? (Look hard for it) Savages
13. What or who is the Lord of the Flies? Describe him and be clear about where “he”
came from and what “he” seems to be doing?
14. What does the “Lord of the Flies” declare to Simon?
PREDICTION: Based on what we have read so far, make a detailed prediction of
what you believe will become of the boys as the novel progresses.
Chapter 9 Questions
1. What ​simile does Simon use for the Lord of the Flies (the pig head) on page 145?
2. What does Simon find on top of the mountain? (p. 146)
3. What news does Simon need to bring to the other boys? (p. 147)
4. Why do Ralph and Piggy decide to join Jack’s party? (p. 148)
5. What does the weather symbolize in this chapter?
6. What does Piggy suggest him and Ralph do on page 151 after arguing with Jack?
7. As the rain starts and the thunder roars and lightning flashes, what does Jack and the
other boys begin to do? (p. 151-152)
8. What is Simon crying out? (p. 152)
9. What happens to Simon? (p. 152-154)
10. What happens to the man with the parachute? (p. 151-153)
Chapter 10 Questions
1. What are Samneric doing at the beginning of the chapter? (p. 155)
2. Who is left on Ralph’s side of the island? (p. 155)
3. What is Ralph feeling guilty about? (p. 155-156)
4. What does Ralph call Simon’s death that makes Piggy upset? (p. 156)
5. How does Piggy try to rationalize the death of Simon? (p. 157)
6. When Samneric show back up what do all four of them try to convince each other?
(p. 158)
The * * * on the bottom of page 158 indicates that we are changing scenes-- at the
top of 159 we are now with Roger who is climbing up ​Castle Rock:​ a castle-like
rock formation on the island
7. What does Robert say Jack has done to Wilferd (a character who we have not met
until now)? (p. 159)
8. What name now identifies Jack? (p. 159-)
9. Who will go with Jack to “take fire from the others? (p. 161)
The * * * on the bottom of page 162 indicates that we are changing scenes again
and are now back with Ralph and Piggy
10. What does Ralph pray the beast will prefer instead of him? (p. 166)
11. What did Jack and his hunters steal from Ralph’s side of the island? (p. 168)
Chapter 11 Questions
Myopia- ​lack of imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight.
Talisman- ​an object believed to contain certain magical powers; a good luck charm.
1.Why does Piggy want to confront Jack and the others? (p. 169-170)
2. What do the boys decide to bring with them to confront Jack(2 times)? (p. 170-171)
3. What does Roger do to Samneric? (p. 175-176)
4. What does Ralph call Jack that causes them to start fighting? (p. 177)
5. What does Piggy remind Ralph their main reason for coming was? (p. 177)
6. What does Jack have the “savages” do to Samneric? (p. 178-179)
7. Explain what happens to Piggy and the conch. Who is responsible for this? (p.
180-181)
8. What simile is used to describe how Piggy looks after the tragic event? (p. 181)
9. With the conch’s destruction, what does Jack proclaim? (p. 181)
10. How does Jack harm Ralph on page 181?
11. What does Jack insist Samneric do? (p. 182)