Chapter 7 - Cloze Deletion

Question 1

I hadn’t, said Ralph loudly. “I knew it all the time. I hadn’t forgotten.”
Piggy nodded ___________.
“You’re chief, Ralph. You remember everything.”

Answer 1

propitiatingly

Question 2

___________ they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance.

Answer 2

truculently

Question 3

Piggy, reassured by the ___________ of violence, stood up carefully.

Answer 3

cessation

Question 4

By him stood Piggy still holding out the ___________, the fragile, shining beauty of the shell.

Answer 4

talisman

Question 5

But then ___________ unreasoning knowledge came to him again.

Answer 5

fatal

Question 6

To carry he must speak louder; and this would rouse those striped and ___________ creatures from their feasting by the fire.

Answer 6

inimical

Question 7

At first light he would creep into the thicket, squeeze between the twisted stems, ___________ himself so deep that only a crawler like himself could come through, and that crawler would be jabbed.

Answer 7

ensconce

Question 8

There he would sit, and the search would pass him by, and the ___________ waver on, ululating along the island, and he would be free.

Answer 8

cordon

Question 9

There he would sit, and the search would pass him by, and the cordon waver on, ___________ along the island, and he would be free.

Answer 9

ululating

Question 10

He heard a curious trickling sound and then a louder ___________ as if someone were unwrapping great sheets of cellophane.

Answer 10

crepitation