Lord of the Flies

Chapters 1-2 Quiz

Ch1
1. Who says the following quotation? _______________________
a. “Can’t catch my breath. I was the only boy in our school that had asthma. And I’ve been
wearing specs since I was three.”
2. Who does the following quotation describe? _______________________
a. “He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy
of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward.”
3. Who says the following quotation? _______________________
a. “I could swim when I was five. Daddy taught me. He’s a commander in the Navy.
When he gets leave he’ll come rescue us.”
4. Who says the following quotation? _______________________
a. “I used to live with my auntie. She kept a candy store. I used to get ever so many
candies. As many as I liked.”
5. Who says the following quotation? _______________________
a. “I ought to be chief because I’m chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp.”

6. Who do the boys vote chief? __________________________

7. Why doesn’t Jack kill the pig?

________________________________________________________

8. What does Ralph do to upset Piggy?

__________________________________________________
9 & 10. Fill in the blanks: “What intelligence had been shown was traceable to
_____________________, while the obvious leader was Jack. But there was a stillness about
Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size and attractive appearance; and most
obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the ________________. The being that had blown that,
had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set
apart.”
Ch2
11. Who says the following quotation? _______________________
(it got away) “Before I could kill it---but next time!”
12. Who says the following quotation? _______________________
“Nobody knows where we are…they don’t know where we are ‘cos we never got there!
13. Who says the following quotation? _______________________
“Acting like a crowd of kids!”
14. How do the boys create fire? __________________________________________________
15. What does Piggy think is missing at the end of Chapter 2?
__________________________________________

Vocabulary:
ebullience / tumult / chorister / enmity / tirade /
efflorescence / hiatus / recrimination / bastion / decorous

1. It was clear to the bottom and bright with _________________________ (blooming of flowers)
of tropical weed and coral.
2. He trotted through the sand, enduring the sun’s ____________________ (deep seated
hatred).
3. Suddenly, Piggy was a-bubble with _________________________ (exhibiting appropriate
behavior) excitement.
4. I ought to be chief because I’m chapter ______________________ (leader of the choir).
5. There, where the island petered out into the water was another island; a rock, almost
detached, standing like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold, pink
_____________________ (stronghold).
6. There came a pause, a ______________________________ (gap), the pig continued to
scream.
7. Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless
___________________________ (spirited enthusiasm) of a child, he picked up the conch,
turned toward the forest, and began his way over the tumbled scar.
8. His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous ______________________ (act of accusing).
9. He paused in the ___________________ (commotion), standing, looking beyond them and
down the unfriendly side of the mountain to the great patch where they had found dead wood.
10. By now they were listening to the _____________________ (long angry violent speech).