SparkNotes: Lord of the Flies: Quiz

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1. Whose responsibility is it to maintain the first signal fire?

(A) Piggy’s

(B) The hunters’

(D) The littluns’

2. What powers does Jack ascribe to the beast after Simon’s murder?

(A) Immortality and the power to change shape

(B) Telepathy and the power to change shape

(D) Enormous strength and murderous cunning

3. How does the first boy disappear?

(A) Roger crushes him with a boulder

(B) The other boys kill him with their bare hands

(D) He burns to death when the signal fire ignites the forest

4. Who is the first boy to disappear?

(A) Piggy

(B) Simon

(D) A littlun

5. Where does the beast go during the day, according to one littlun?

(A) Into the ocean

(B) Into the air

(D) Into the caves near the Castle Rock

6. Who sees the dead parachutist first?

(A) Ralph

(B) Sam and Eric

(D) Piggy

7. Which character speaks to the Lord of the Flies?

(A) Phil

(B) Ralph

(D) Simon

8. What lures the navy ship to the island?

(A) The fire in the jungle

(B) The roar of the beast

(D) The shortwave radio

9. Whom does Jack strike shortly after his first kill?

(A) Ralph

(B) Francis

(D) Roger

10. When Piggy is killed, what else is destroyed?

(A) The shortwave radio

(B) The conch shell

(D) The signal fire

11. What is Ralph’s first act upon being elected leader?

(A) Planning the building of the signal fire

(B) Naming Piggy his chief advisor

(D) Naming Jack the leader of the hunters

12. What object does Ralph clutch when he talks about Simon’s murder?

(A) The sow’s head

(B) The conch shell

(D) A spear

13. Who is the only boy to kill someone on the island by himself?

(A) Piggy

(B) Jack

(D) Robert

14. What does Jack suggest the boys use as the “pig” in their dance-like reenactment of the hunt?

(A) A littlun

(B) Piggy

(D) A real pig

15. Which boy treats the littluns with the most kindness?

(A) Simon

(B) Jack

(D) Ralph

16. Which boy would rather hunt than build huts?

(A) Simon

(B) Jack

(D) Ralph

17. Where is Jack’s tribe headquarters?

(A) Next to Ralph’s

(B) On the mountain of the beast

(D) At the Castle Rock

18. What tool or tools do the boys use to make fire?

(A) A flint and steel

(B) Ralph’s tinderbox

(D) Matches from the airplane

19. What is the boys’ home country?

(A) England

(B) Australia

(D) Canada

20. Who kills Piggy?

(A) Ralph

(B) Roger

(D) Simon

21. What surrounds Simon’s body as it floats into the sea?

(A) Sharks

(B) Eels

(D) Glowing fish

22. Who knocks the Lord of the Flies to the ground?

(A) Ralph

(B) Roger

(D) Piggy

23. On what obstruction does the dead parachutist become tangled?

(A) Tree limbs

(B) Jagged rocks

(D) The Castle Rock

24. Who tells Jack where Ralph is hiding in Chapter 12?

(A) Simon

(B) Roger

(D) Sam and Eric

25. Which boy does not dance at Jack’s first feast?

(A) Simon

(B) Ralph

(D) Jack