Chapter 5 - Cloze Deletion

Question 1

Percival Wemys Madison, of the Vicarage, Harcourt St. Anthony, lying in the long grass, was living through circumstances in which the ____________ of his address was powerless to help him.

Answer 1

​incantation

Question 2

At first he was a silent ____________ of sorrow; but then the lamentation rose out of him, loud and sustained as the conch.

Answer 2

effigy

Question 3

Everybody agreed, ____________.

Answer 3

sagely

Question 4

Simon became ____________ in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.

Answer 4

inarticulate

Question 5

On the other side of the island, swathed at midday with mirage, defended by the shield of the quiet lagoon, one might dream of rescue; but here, faced by the brute ____________ of the ocean, the miles of division, one was clamped down, one was helpless, one was condemned, one was—

Answer 5

obtuseness

Question 6

That was from Piggy, shocked out of ____________.

Answer 6

decorum

Question 7

He was surrounded on all sides by ____________ of empty air.

Answer 7

chasms

Question 8

The assembly shredded away and became a ____________ and random scatter from the palms to the water and away along the beach, beyond night-sight.

Answer 8

discursive

Question 9

An ____________ dawn faded the stars out, and at last light, sad and grey, filtered into the shelter.

Answer 9

interminable

Question 10

At first he was a silent effigy of sorrow; but then the ____________ rose out of him, loud and sustained as the conch.

Answer 10

lamentation