Lord of the Flies Savagery Quotes

Question 1

‘This time Ralph expressed the ____ of his ____ by ____ to knock Simon down.’

Which chapter?

Answer 1

‘This time Ralph expressed the intensity of his emotion by pretending to knock Simon down.’

Chapter 1

Question 2

When the boys couldn’t kill the first piglet:

‘They ____ very well why he hadn’t: because of the ________ of the knife ________ and ____ into ____ flesh; because of the ________ blood.’

Which chapter?

Answer 2

‘They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.’

Chapter 1

Question 3

About Jack not being able to kill the piglet:

‘Next time there would be no ____. He looked round ____, ____ them to ________.’

Which chapter?

Answer 3

‘Next time there would be no mercy. He looked round fiercely, daring them to contradict.’

Chapter 1

Question 4

‘The boys lay, panting like ____.’

Which chapter?

Answer 4

‘The boys lay, panting like dogs.’

Chapter 2

Question 5

“The conch doesn’t ____ on top of the mountain,” said Jack, “so you ____ ____ .”

Which chapter?

Answer 5

“The conch doesn’t count on top of the mountain,” said Jack, “so you shut up.”

Chapter 2

Question 6

‘Jack turned ____.’

Which chapter?

Answer 6

‘Jack turned fiercely.’

Chapter 2

Question 7

‘The _____ and the _ made him savage.’

Which chapter?

Answer 7

‘The knowledge and the awe made him savage.’

Chapter 2

Question 8

‘His __ only a few ____ from the humid earth.’

Which chapter?

Answer 8

‘His nose only a few inches from the humid earth.’

Chapter 3

Question 9

‘A ____ stick… ____ from his right hand.’

Which chapter?

Answer 9

‘A sharpened stick… trailed from his right hand.’

Chapter 3

Question 10

‘____, maddening - the ____ of meat.’

Which chapter?

Answer 10

‘seductive, maddening - the promise of meat.’

Chapter 3

Question 11

Only between chapter 2 and 3 Jack’s ‘stick’ changes to a what?

Answer 11

A spear.

Question 12

‘All you can talk about is ___, ___, ___!’

Which chapter?

Answer 12

‘All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!’

Chapter 3

Question 13

‘He began to dance and his ____ became a ____ ____.’

Which chapter?

Answer 13

‘He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling.’

Chapter 4

Question 14

About Jack

‘The ____ knife in his hand.’

Which chapter?

Answer 14

‘The bloodied knife in his hand.’

Chapter 4

Question 15

‘____ beat about Simon on the mountain-top with ____ ____.’

Which chapter?

Answer 15

‘Passion beat about Simon on the mountain-top with awful wings.’

Chapter 4

Question 16

When Ralph gives in and accepts meat:

‘____ it like a wolf.’

Which chapter?

Answer 16

‘gnawed it like a wolf.’

Chapter 4

Question 17

When discussing killing the pig while eating its meat:

‘The first ____ had ____ its hind quarters, so then the ____ could ____ in and ____ and ____-‘

Which chapter?

Answer 17

‘The first blow had paralyzed its hind quarters, so then the circle could close in and beat and beat-‘

Chapter 4

Question 18

When was the chant first made and what is it?

Answer 18

After eating the meat of the first pig they killed in chapter 4.

‘Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in’

Question 19

‘The assembly ____.’

Which chapter?

Answer 19

‘The assembly roared.’

Chapter 5

Question 20

‘The dancing, ____ boys had ____ themselves away till their ____ was ____ but a ____ ____.’

Which chapter?

Answer 20

‘The dancing, chanting boys had worked themselves away till their sound was nothing but a wordless rhythm.’

Chapter 5

Question 21

When Jack’s left forearm had ‘On the outside was a ____; not ____, ____ ____.’

‘____ ____ on Jack.’

Which chapter?

Answer 21

When Jack’s left forearm had ‘On the outside was a rip; not much, but bloody.’

‘Attention focused on Jack.’

Chapter 7

Question 22

‘____ in the energy and ____ in the ____.’

Which chapter?

Answer 22

‘panic in the energy and hysteria in the cheefulness.’

Chapter 8

Question 23

‘____ to her in ____, excited’.

Which chapter?

Answer 23

‘wedded to her in lust, excited’.

Chapted 8

Question 24

During Simon’s murder:

‘There were no ____, and no ____ but the ____ of ____ and ____.’

Which chapter?

Answer 24

‘There were no words, and no movement but the tearing of teeth and claws.’

Chapter 9

Question 25

‘A ____ raised his hand.’

Which chapter?

Answer 25

‘A savage raised his hand.’

Chapter 10

Question 26

“They understood only ____ ____ the ____ into ____ that the ____ paint brought.”

Which chapter?

Answer 26

“They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought.”

Chapter 11

Question 27

About the parachutist:

‘Something like a ____ ____ was sitting asleep’

Which chapter?

Answer 27

‘Something like a great ape was sitting asleep’

Chapter 7

Question 28

‘They were ____ to ____, breathing ____, ____ and ____.’

Which chapter?

Answer 28

‘They were chest to chest, breathing fiercely, pushing and glaring.’

Chapter 11

Question 29

‘This was a ____ whose image ____ to ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ of a boy in ____ and ____.’

Which chapter?

Answer 29

‘This was a boy whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and shirt.’

Chapter 12