Lord of the Flies

Question 1

Lord of the Flies

Theme: Order and Disorder

Answer 1

“I should have thought that a pack of British boys …. would have been able to put up a better show than that” – The officer

The creature was a party of boys, marching approximately in step in two parallel lines

Question 2

Lord of the Flies

Theme: Democracy and Dictatorship

Answer 2

“I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak, they won’t be interrupted” - Ralph

‘We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages’ Jack

Question 3

Lord of the Flies

Theme: Violence

Answer 3

“Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!” - The boys

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

Question 4

Lord of the Flies

Theme:Civilisation and Savagery

Answer 4

He hadn’t because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh

“Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?” - Piggy

Question 5

Lord of the Flies

Theme: Human nature

Answer 5

“Maybe there is a beast….maybe it’s only us” – Simon

“You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! “ - The Lord of the Flies

Question 6

Lord of the Flies

Theme: Loss of Innocence

Answer 6

“We’ll have to look after ourselves” - Jack

“Kill the pig, slit her throat, spill her blood”

Question 7

Lord of the Flies

Theme: Setting

Answer 7

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers… Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.”

“Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar.

Question 8

Lord of the Flies

Theme: Ralph

Answer 8

“I’m calling an assembly”

Then there was that indefinable connection between himself and Jack; who therefore would never let him alone….

Question 9

Lord of the Flies

Theme: Jack

Answer 9

The boy who controlled them

The compulsion to track down and kill things…was swallowing him up

Question 10

Lord of the Flies

Theme: Simon

Answer 10

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

Itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon’s dead body moved out toward the open sea.

Question 11

Lord of the Flies

Theme: Piggy

Answer 11

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

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