lord of the flies quotes

Question 1

he was a skinny…

Answer 1

vivid little boy (about simon)

Question 2

simon found for them…

Answer 2

the fruit they could not reach

Question 3

simon became inarticulate…

Answer 3

in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness

Question 4

“Acting like…

Answer 4

a crowd of kids!” (Piggy)

Question 5

“What are we?…”

Answer 5

“Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What’s grownups going to think?” (Piggy)

Question 6

Piggy took off his shoes and socks, ranged them…

Answer 6

carefully on the ledge, and tested the water with one toe

Question 7

He snatched his knife…

Answer 7

out of the sheath and slammed into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy (Jack)

Question 8

Jack seized…

Answer 8

the conch

Question 9

Jack himself shrank…

Answer 9

at this cry with a hiss of in drawn breath

Question 10

Ape-like…

Answer 10

among the tangle of trees (Jack)

Question 11

He tried to convey…

Answer 11

the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up (Jack)

Question 12

Looped fantasy…

Answer 12

of forest creepers (setting)

Question 13

Blue flowers…

Answer 13

of the mountain side (setting)

Question 14

Glittering…

Answer 14

sea (setting)

Question 15

in the middle of the scar…

Answer 15

he stood on his head and grinned at the reversed fat boy (Ralph)

Question 16

A mildness…

Answer 16

about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil (Ralph)

Question 17

“Be sucking my thumb next…”

Answer 17

he looked round, furtively (Ralph)

Question 18

He felt the need…

Answer 18

of witnesses (Ralph)

Question 19

Ralph wept…

Answer 19

for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy

Question 20

stood there among the skull like…

Answer 20

coconuts with green shadows from the palms and the forest sliding over his skin (setting)

Question 21

pleased despite himself…

Answer 21

at even this much recognition (Piggy)

Question 22

He noticed blood…

Answer 22

on his hands and grimaced distastefully (Jack)

Question 23

He held the shell up…

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instead and showed it to them and they understood (the conch)

Question 24

The rock struck Piggy…

Answer 24

a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist (the conch)

Question 25

Roger stooped, picked up…

Answer 25

a stone, aimed, and threw it at Henry– threw it to miss

Question 26

cradling the…

Answer 26

great cream shell (the conch)

Question 27

there was a slight, furtive…

Answer 27

boy whom no one knew, who kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy (Roger)

Question 28

Roger, with a sense of…

Answer 28

delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever.

Question 29

Piggy asked no names…

Answer 29

He was intimidated by this uniformed superiority and the offhand authority in Merridew’s voice. He shrank to the other side of Ralph and busied himself with his glasses

Question 30

liberated from…

Answer 30

shame and self-consciousness (about Jack near the end of the book, when he turns into a ruthless ‘leader’)

Question 31

painted and…

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garlanded … like an idol (Jack)

Question 32

There were no words…

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and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws (used to describe simon’s murder)

Question 33

searching for…

Answer 33

a formula (Piggy, about Simon’s death)

Question 34

Roger’s arm was…

Answer 34

conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins (when Roger threw the stones to miss Henry)

Question 35

Piggy was no…

Answer 35

chief (noted by Ralph)