Lord of the Flies

Question 1

Name of chapter 2

Answer 1

Fire on the mountain

Question 2

Name of chapter 3

Answer 2

Huts on the Beach

Question 3

Name of chapter 4

Answer 3

Painted Faces and Long Hair

Question 4

Name of chapter 5

Answer 4

Beast from water

Question 5

Name of chapter 6

Answer 5

Beast from Air

Question 6

Name of chapter 7

Answer 6

Shadows and Tall Trees

Question 7

Name of chapter 8

Answer 7

Gift for the Darkness

Question 8

Name of chapter 9

Answer 8

A view to a death

Question 9

Name of chapter 10

Answer 9

The Shell and the Glasses

Question 10

Name of chapter 11

Answer 10

Castle Rock

Question 11

Name of chapter 12

Answer 11

Cry of the hunters

Question 12

Name of chapter 1

Answer 12

The sound of the Shell

Question 13

Chapter one ‘The Sound of the Shell’ summary

Answer 13

Ralph and Piggy find the conch. Ralph blows the conch to call an assembly and is elected as chief

Jack, Simon and Ralph explore the island and confirm it is an island

Find a trapped pig, which Jack can not bring himself to kill

Question 14

Chapter 2 ‘Fire on the Mountain’ summary

Answer 14

Ralph calls another assembly

One of the littluns mentions a ‘beastie’. They debate its existence and conclude it was just a nightmare

Ralph decides they need to make sire on the mountain as a signal so they can be rescued

Fire rages out of control- one of the littluns is killed

Jack and Ralph begin to argue- negatives of island become more apparent

Question 15

Chapter 3 ‘Huts on the beach’ summary

Answer 15

Jack becomes obsessed with hunting pigs, though is yet to catch one

Simon and Ralph are the only ones building huts, the rest of the boys play

Ralph becomes frustrated and argues with Jack again- they have different priorities (Ralph- shelters, Jack-hunting)

Simon wanders off to an isolated location and appreciates the natural beauty of nature around him

Question 16

Chapter 4 ‘Painted Faces and Long Hair’ summary

Answer 16

Roger and Maurice bully the littluns on the beach, however they are still held back by the rules they learnt in civilisation

Jack paints his face for hunting and leads the boys on a hunting expedition. They let the fire go out

Ship passes whilst they are hunting

Jack and the hunters return with a pig. Jack and Ralph argue

Question 17

Chapter 5 ‘Beast from water’ summary

Answer 17

Ralph becomes weary of responsibility. He calls a meeting and reestablishes the rules regarding the fire

The subject of the beast is brought up and one boy claims the beast comes from the sea

Simon suggests that the beast is only them. The other boys make fun of him

Jack storms away with his hunters

Question 18

Chapter 6 ‘Beast from the air’

Answer 18

A plane is shot down and a dead parachutist lands on the island

Samneric see it and mistake it for the beast

They go and tell the other boys. Boys go and hunt the beast, going to the only unexplored part- Castle Rock

Ralph notices that the fire has gone out, none of the others seem to care

Question 19

Chapter 7 ‘Shadows and Tall Trees’ chapter summary

Answer 19

Ralph realises how high the odds against rescue are but Simon tells him that he will get back to where he came from

Ralph gets his first taste of hunting and enjoyed it

The boys act out a pig hunt

Jack, Roger and Ralph go to the mountain in search for the beast. They see the dead parachutist who they mistake for the beast

Question 20

Chapter 8 ‘Gift for the Darkness’ summary

Answer 20

Jack calls a meeting and says that Ralph should no longer be chief. No one else agrees

Jack leaves the tribe

Piggy suggests that they build the fire on the beach

Simon goes to his hiding spot

Some of the boys join Jack’s new tribe and hunt a pig, offering the head to the beast as a sacrifice

Simon imagines the pig’s head is talking to him

Question 21

Chapter 9 ‘The View to a death’ summary

Answer 21

Simon wakes up and discovers that the beast is just the parachuter he heads to the beach to tell the others

All the boys go to Jack’s feast

Jack and his hunters begin their chant. Simon appears from the forest and they kill him

Question 22

Chapter 10 ‘The Shell and the Glasses’ summary

Answer 22

Ralph, Piggy and Samneric are the only ones left in the original tribe

They express there horror over Simon’s death and try to cover up the fact that they took part

Jack’s Tribe attacks Ralph’s and steal Piggy’s glasses

Question 23

Chapter 11 ‘Castle Rock summary’

Answer 23

Ralphs tribe go to Castle Rock with the conch

Ralph demands Piggy’s glasses back

Jack’s savages tie up Samneric

Roger wedges a giant rock loses and rolls it onto Piggy, which kills Piggy and smashes the conch

Jack and the others throw spears at Ralph who runs away

Question 24

Chapter 12 ‘Cry of the Hunters’ summary

Answer 24

Ralph returns to Castle Rock at night to talk to Samneric. They warn him about the hunt for him tomorrow and that Roger has sharpened a stick at both ends

Ralph hides in a thicket

The twins give away Ralphs location and Jack tries to smoke him out

Ralph charges out and runs for his life.

The hunters chase Ralph down to the beach where he finds a naval officer who saw the smoke