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Question 1

Ralph 1

Answer 1

‘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.’ CH 1

Question 2

Ralph 2

Answer 2

‘Ralph sat on a fallen trunk, his left side to the sun. On his right were most of the choir; on his left were larger boys who had not known each other before…before him small children squatted in the grass.’ CH 2

Question 3

Ralph 3

Answer 3

“Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains. Ralph was a specialist in thought now, and could recognize thought in another.” Ch. 5

Question 4

Ralph 4

Answer 4

“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.” Ch. 5

Question 5

Ralph 5

Answer 5

“Even the sounds of nightmare from the other shelters no longer reached him, for he was back to where came from, feeding the ponies with sugar over the garden wall.” Ch. 6

Question 6

Ralph 6

Answer 6

“Not even Ralph knew how a link between him and Jack had been snapped and fastened elsewhere.”

Question 7

Ralph 7

Answer 7

“The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.” Ch. 7

Question 8

Ralph 8

Answer 8

“‘after all we aren’t savages really…’” Ch. 11

Question 9

Ralph 9

Answer 9

“‘They’re not as bad as that. It was an accident.’” Chapter 12

Question 10

Ralph 10

Answer 10

“Ralph launched himself like a cat; stabbed, snarling, with the spear, and the savage doubled up.” Chapter 12

Question 11

Ralph 11

Answer 11

“What was the sensible thing to do? There was no Piggy to talk sense.” Chapter 12

Question 12

Ralph 12

Answer 12

“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.” Chapter 12

Question 13

Piggy 1

Answer 13

“He was shorter than the fair boy and very fat…looked up through thick spectacles.” Ch. 1

Question 14

Piggy 2

Answer 14

“Piggy asked no names. He was intimidated by this uniformed superiority and the off-hand authority in Merridew’s voice” Ch. 1

Question 15

Piggy 3

Answer 15

“with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children” Ch. 2

Question 16

Piggy 4

Answer 16

“‘You got your small fire all right.’” Ch. 2

Question 17

Piggy 5

Answer 17

“Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains. Ralph was a specialist in thought now, and could recognize thought in another.” Ch. 5

Question 18

Piggy 6

Answer 18

“Piggy was… so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society, that he helped to fetch wood.” Ch. 8

Question 19

Piggy 7

Answer 19

“We was on the outside. We never done nothing, we never seen nothing.” Ch.10

Question 20

Piggy 8

Answer 20

“I’m scared of him, 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.” Ch. 6

Question 21

Piggy 9

Answer 21

“‘This is ‘jus talk… I want my glasses.’” Ch. 11

Question 22

Piggy 10

Answer 22

“Ralph–remember what we came for. The fire. My specs.” Ch. 11

Question 23

Piggy 11

Answer 23

“Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?” Ch. 11

Question 24

Piggy 12

Answer 24

“The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.” Ch. 11

Question 25

Piggy 13

Answer 25

“Piggy’s arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig’s after it has been killed.” Chapter 11

Question 26

Piggy 14

Answer 26

“What was the sensible thing to do? There was no Piggy to talk sense.” Chapter 12

Question 27

Jack 1

Answer 27

“When his party was about ten yards from the platform he shouted an order and they halted, gasping, sweating, swaying in the fierce light” Ch. 1

Question 28

Jack 2

Answer 28

“‘We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.’” Ch. 2

Question 29

Jack 3

Answer 29

“Jack was bent double. He was down like a sprinter, his nose only a few inches from the humid earth. … he lowered his chin and stared at the traces as though he would force them to speak. Then, dog-like, uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort, he stole forward” Ch. 3

Question 30

Jack 4

Answer 30

“If you’re hunting sometimes… you can feel as if you’re not hunting, but – being hunted, as if something’s behind you all the time in the jungle.”

Question 31

Jack 5

Answer 31

“Beside the mere, his sinewy body held up a mask that drew their eyes and appalled them. He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling.” Ch. 4

Question 32

Jack 6

Answer 32

“‘I painted my face–I stole up. Now you eat–all of you–and I–’” Ch.4

Question 33

Jack 7

Answer 33

“I’m scared of him, 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.” Ch. 6

Question 34

Jack 8

Answer 34

“Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!” Ch. 5

Question 35

Jack 9

Answer 35

“‘We musn’t let anything happen to Piggy, must we?’” Ch. 7

Question 36

Jack 10

Answer 36

“He says things like Piggy. He isn’t a proper chief.’” Ch. 8

Question 37

Jack 11

Answer 37

“‘This head is for the beast. It’s a gift.’” Ch. 8

Question 38

Jack 12

Answer 38

“You can’t tell what he might do.” Ch. 10

Question 39

Jack 13

Answer 39

“You’re a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!” Ch. 11

Question 40

Simon 1

Answer 40

“Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for the fruit they could not reach… passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands.” Ch. 3

Question 41

Simon 2

Answer 41

“‘Maybe there is a beast….maybe it’s only us.’” Ch. 5

Question 42

Simon 3

Answer 42

“However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.” Ch. 6

Question 43

Simon 4

Answer 43

“‘You’ll get back to where you came from.’” Ch. 7

Question 44

Simon 5

Answer 44

“‘You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?’” …”‘You’re not wanted…“Ch. 8

Question 45

Simon 6

Answer 45

“The water rose farther and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.” Ch. 9

Question 46

Simon 7

Answer 46

“surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon’s dead body moved out toward the open sea.” Ch. 9

Question 47

Roger 1

Answer 47

“Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilisation that knew nothing of him and was in ruins” Ch. 4

Question 48

Roger 2

Answer 48

“Roger received this news as an illumination. He ceased to work at his tooth and sat still, assimilating the possibilities of irresponsible authority” Ch. 10

Question 49

Roger 3

Answer 49

“Roger advanced… as one wielding a nameless authority.” Chapter 11