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TEST - Lord of the Flies

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Read each quote about Ralph below. Then sort the quotes:

1 Initial Characterization
2 Changing Island Characterization
3 Changed Island Characterization
4 Final Characterization

  • "He squatted back on his heels and showed his teeth at the wall of branches. He raised his spear, snarled a little .... he launched himself like a cat, stabbed, snarling. Then he was running with the swiftness of fear... he flung himself down under a bush and waited for a moment... There were many things he could do... if only one had time to think!
  • "... the delight of a realized ambition overcame him. In the middle of the scar the fair boy stood on his head and grinned... 'No grownups!' ... you could see now that he might make a boxer, as far as width and heaviness of shoulders went, but there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil."
  • "Squirming a little, conscious of his filthy appearance... Ralph looked around him dumbly. ... The tears began to flow and sobs shook him. He gave himself up to... great shuddering spasms of grief that seemed to wrench his whole body... with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept."
  • "By now, Ralph had no self-consciousness in public thinking but would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he wold never be a very good chess player.
  • Ralph's Initial Characterization
  • Ralph's Changing Island Characterization
  • Ralph's Changed Island Characterization
  • Ralph's Final Characterization
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Read each quote about Jack below. Then sort the quotes:

1 Initial Characterization
2 Changing Island Characterization
3 Changed Island Characterization
4 Final Characterization

  • "Jack planned a new face. He made one cheek and one eye socket white, then he rubbed red over the other half of his face and slashed a black bar of charcoal across from right ear to left jaw. ... he began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling. ... the mask was a thing of its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness."
  • "Suddenly, Jack bounded out from the tribe and began screaming wildly. ... 'I'm chief!' Viciously, with full intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph."
  • "A little boy who wore the remains of an extraordinary black cap on his red hair and who carried the remains of a pair of spectacles at his waist, started forward, then changed his mind and stood still."
  • "... he vaulted onto the platform with his black cloak flying... he was tall, thin, and bony, and his hair was red beneath his black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness. Out of this face stared two light blue eyes, frustrated now, and turning or ready to turn to anger."
  • Jack's Initial Characterization
  • Jack's Changing Island Characterization
  • Jack's Changed Island Characterization
  • Jack's Final Characterization
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Throughout the novel, Ralph's actions demonstrate that he is most concerned with...

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What do the boys find that becomes a symbol of authority in their island society?

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Why is Ralph initially selected as their leader?

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What was Ralph's first act upon being chosen as leader?

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What does a littlun claim he saw in the forest that starts wild claims and nightmares?

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How and why do the boys make the first fire?

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Why does this first fire fail?

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How does Jack free himself from shame, fear, and guilt so that he can hunt the pigs?

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What causes the hunters, who had promised to keep the signal fire burning, to neglect it and allow it to go out?

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the masks the boys paint onto their faces symbolize all of the following except

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What bloodthirsty chant becomes part of their hunting ritual?

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What does Simon mean when he says, "maybe there is a a beast.... maybe it's only us." (89)

Re-Read the excerpt below from Beast from Water (p. 93)

Ralph shuddered violently and moved closer to Piggy, so that they bumped frighteningly.
“You stop talking like that! We got enough trouble, Ralph, an’ I’ve had as much as I can stand. If there is ghosts—”
“I ought to give up being chief. Hear ’em.”
“Oh lord! Oh no!”
Piggy gripped Ralph’s arm.
“If Jack was chief he’d have all hunting and no fire. We’d be here till we died.”
His voice ran up to a squeak.
“Fat lot of good we are,” said Ralph. “Three blind mice. I’ll give up.”
“If you give up,” said Piggy, in an appalled whisper, “what ’ud happen to me?”
“Nothing.”
“He hates me. I dunno why. If he could do what he wanted—you’re all right, he respects you. Besides—you’d hit him.”
“You were having a nice fight with him just now.”
“I had the conch,” said Piggy simply. “I had a right to speak.”
Simon stirred in the dark.
”Go on being chief.“
”You shut up, young Simon! Why couldn’t you say there wasn’t a beast?"
“I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe. I tell you what. He hates you too, Ralph—”
“Me? Why me?”
“I dunno. You got him over the fire; an’ you’re chief an’ he isn’t.”
“But he’s-- he’s, Jack Merridew!”
“I been in bed so much I done some thinking. I know about people. I know about me. And him. He can’t hurt you: but if you stand out of the way he’d hurt the next thing. And that’s me.”
“Piggy’s right, Ralph. There’s you and Jack. Go on being chief.”
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The details highlighted in red have what effect?

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Why is "Jack Merridew" (highlighted in yellow) italicized in the text?

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Why does Piggy want Ralph to stay chief?

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Why does Piggy understand Jack better than Ralph does?

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Which larger theme of the novel is reflected here through Piggy in this excerpt?

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Literally, physically, what is the Beast?

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Literally, physically, what is the Lord of the Flies?

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What secret meaning does The Lord of the Flies convey to Simon?

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Which character finds and interacts with BOTH the Lord of the Flies and The Beast, and both times alone?

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"The Lord of the Flies" is a direct _________ to the ancient god Beelzebub, another name for the Canaanite god Baal referenced in the Old Testament. In theological sources, predominantly Christian, Beelzebub is also another name for Satan.

What literary device would fit in the blank above to describe the fact that the name "The Lord of the Flies" is a Biblical reference?

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In Lord of the Flies, William Golding makes direct allusions to ALL of the following EXCEPT:

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A student has collected the following quotes to support her inference below:

Golding escalates the hunts to show how the boys could easily lose control and make the transition from hunting pigs to hurting people.

Which of the following pieces of evidence is the WEAKEST support of her statement and should be eliminated?

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What surrounds Simon's body as it floats out to sea, and what does it represent?

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Considering the imagery of the scene and the novel as a whole, after Simon is killed, his body being washed to sea symbolically means that...

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Where do Jack and the hunters set up their tribe's headquarters?

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Who is directly responsible for Piggy's death?

(Hint: who wears the "hangman's horror")

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When Piggy is killed, what else is destroyed?

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What attracts the rescue ship at the end of the novel?

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Why is the situation above ironic?

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Drag and match each motif with its symbolic meaning

  • ability to see, knowledge, understanding things clearly; humankind's use of technology to improve life
  • a means of hiding oneself from others, and yourself
  • a microcosim of the world; at first a Garden of Eden, in the end a charred firery Hell
  • the embodied concept of man's inhumanity to man, man's capacity for violence; what happens to individuals in war
  • authority, order, rules and the belief that everyone has the right to speak and be listened to
  • at first, hope for rescue and safety; by the end of the book, human's capacity for destruction
  • the conch
  • the glasses
  • masks
  • the island
  • The Lord of the Flies
  • fire
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All of the following quotes from The Lord of the Flies illustrate how the boys have been socialized to follow the rules of good behavior EXCEPT:

ROGER and ROCKS

Directions: Reread the two passages below that show Roger's changing character. Then, answer the question that follows:

Excerpt 1 (Ch. 4 - Painted Faces and Long Hair)

"... Henry, Percival, and Johnny, the smallest boys on the island... were kneeling in the sand, were at peace ...They had built castles in the sand at the bar of the little river. These castles were about one foot high and were decorated with shells, withered flowers, and interesting stones. ...

Roger and Maurice came out of the forest. They were relieved from duty at the fire and had come down for a swim. Roger led the way straight through the castles, kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones. Maurice followed, laughing, and added to the destruction. The three littluns paused in their game and looked up. As it happened, the particular marks in which they were interested had not been touched, so they made no protest. Only Percival began to whimper with an eyeful of sand and Maurice hurried away. 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. At the back of his mind formed the uncertain outlines of an excuse. He muttered something about a swim and broke into a trot.

Roger remained, watching the littluns. He was not noticeably darker than when he had dropped in, but the shock of black hair, down his nape and low on his forehead, seemed to suit his gloomy face and made what had seemed at first an unsociable remoteness into something forbidding. Percival finished his whimper and went on playing, for the tears had washed the sand away.

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. ... [As Henry played with creatures in the water] Henry became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things.

... 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. 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. 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.

“Roger.”

Jack was standing under a tree about ten yards away. When Roger opened his eyes and saw him, a darker shadow crept beneath the swarthiness of his skin; but Jack noticed nothing. He was eager, impatient, beckoning, so that Roger went to him." (p. 60-62)

Excerpt 2 (Ch. 11 - Castle Rock)

Piggy’s voice penetrated to Ralph.
“Let me speak.”
He was standing in the dust of the fight, and as the tribe saw his intention the shrill cheer changed to a steady booing.
Piggy held up the conch and the booing sagged a little, then came up again to strength.
“I got the conch!”
He shouted.
“I tell you, I got the conch!”

Surprisingly, there was silence now; the tribe were curious to hear what amusing thing he might have to say.

Silence and pause; but in the silence a curious air-noise, close by Ralph’s head. He gave it half his attention—and there it was again; a faint “Zup!” Someone was throwing stones: Roger was dropping them, his one hand still on the lever. Below him, Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy a bag of fat.

“I got this to say. You’re acting like a crowd of kids.”
The booing rose and died again as Piggy lifted the white, magic shell.
“Which is better—to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is?”
A great clamor rose among the savages. Piggy shouted again.
“Which is better—to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?”
Again the clamor and again—“Zup!”
Ralph shouted against the noise.
“Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?”

Now Jack was yelling too and Ralph could no longer make himself heard. Jack had backed right against the tribe and they were a solid mass of menace that bristled with spears. The intention of a charge was forming among them; they were working up to it and the neck would be swept clear. Ralph stood facing them, a little to one side, his spear ready.

By him stood Piggy still holding out the talisman, the fragile, shining beauty of the shell. The storm of sound beat at them, an incantation of hatred. High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever.

Ralph heard the great rock before he saw it. He was aware of a jolt in the earth that came to him through the soles of his feet, and the breaking sound of stones at the top of the cliff. Then the monstrous red thing bounded across the neck and he flung himself flat while the tribe shrieked. The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. Piggy, saying nothing, with no time for even a grunt, traveled through the air sideways from the rock, turning over as he went. The rock bounded twice and was lost in the forest. Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea. His head opened and stuff came out and turned red. Piggy’s arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig’s after it has been killed. Then the sea breathed again in a long, slow sigh, the water boiled white and pink over the rock; and when it went, sucking back again, the body of Piggy was gone.

This time the silence was complete. Ralph’s lips formed a word but no sound came. Suddenly Jack bounded out from the tribe and began screaming wildly.

“See? See? That’s what you’ll get! I meant that! There isn’t a tribe for you any more! The conch is gone—” He ran forward, stooping. “I’m chief!”

Viciously, with full intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph. The point tore the skin and flesh over Ralph’s ribs, then sheared off and fell in the water. Ralph stumbled, feeling not pain but panic, and the tribe, screaming now like the chief, began to advance. Another spear, a bent one that would not fly straight, went past his face and one fell from on high where Roger was." (p. 180-181)
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At the start of excerpt 1, the littluns are...

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In excerpt 1, how does Maurice feel about the destruction of the littluns sandcastles?

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In excerpt 1, what outside influence impacts Maurice's feelings about the destruction of the sandcastles?

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Complete the analogy below based on excerpt 1:

Henry is to "obedient" as Roger is to ...

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In excerpt 1, what outside influence has the MOST sway over Roger?

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In excerpt 1, Henry is hit by a rock but does not care.

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In excerpt 1, Henry notices the rocks but does not think they are being thrown by a person.

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In excerpt 1, Roger is throwing the stones with the intent to hit Henry.

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In excerpt 1, Jack did not witness Roger's stone throwing.

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In excerpt 2, why do the boys listen to Piggy?

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In excerpt 2, Piggy compares the boys to...

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In excerpt 2, Piggy draws a contrast between the boys and _______.

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In excerpt 2, the shell is described as all of the following EXCEPT

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In excerpt 2, when Piggy dies he is compared to...

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The description of the sea in excerpt 2 personifies the sea as...

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In excerpt 2, Jack "claims" Piggy's death.

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In excerpt 2, Jack does not intend to kill Ralph with his spear and threw to miss.

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Based on the excerpts above, how does society influence/shape Roger's behavior?

Use at least 1+ piece of evidence from EACH excerpt above, analyzing how his changing environment shaped Roger across The Lord of the Flies. (6+ sentences, 2+ quotes)

(Challenge: Consider the author's deeper meaning here in your response. What is Golding saying about environment/society and how it shapes individuals?)

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Which of the following quotes best captures Golding's view of the state of mankind?

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Which of the statements below accurately captures an overarching theme of the novel?