Question 1

The savagery of the boys. The disguise that shows they have become "someone else".

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The masks the boys paint onto their faces symbolize what?

Question 2

they made a dark cloud round the head.

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The life-like movement would scare them off for a moment so that

Question 3

Jack

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Suggests that they ignite the pile by using Piggy's shoes

Question 4

Simon

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Lies on the sand with hands over his face, trying to ward off blows from his attackers' sticks

Question 5

Ralph

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Who daydreams about the comforts of home?

Question 6

The hunters have become so distracted by Jack's want to hunt and kill the pigs. Jack needed enough people to circle around a pig, so the boys went with Jack, neglecting the fire.

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What causes the hunters, who had promised to keep the fire burning, to neglect it and allow it to go out?

Question 7

hemmed in the terror and made it governable.

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They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that

Question 8

Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea.

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Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations,

Question 9

Simon

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Names the blossoms "candle buds"

Question 10

Simon

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Is a sensitive boy who suffers seizures

Question 11

Nah

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Does Simon faint when he sets the parachutist free?

Question 12

He is overweight, has poor vision and is clumsy.

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Why do the boys make fun of Piggy?

Question 13

Ralph

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Would like to go hunting, but chooses to build shelters

Question 14

Jack

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Who starts the fire that ironically brings rescue?

Question 15

The conch shell symbolizes the rule of law and civilization. civilization. It's used to call

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The conch becomes a symbol of what?

Question 16

the flies settle once more.

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Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and

Question 17

Ralph

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Instructs the group to make a fire

Question 18

Piggy

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Lived with his aunt and suffers asthma

Question 19

law and order

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Simon's death represents the death of what?

Question 20

Roger

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Becomes Jack's sadistic follower

Question 21

He reminds himself to think

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What does Ralph do as he flees the savages?

Question 22

already its blood was staining the sand.

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Even in the rain they could see how small a beast it was; and

Question 23

Percival

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Lived at the Vicarage, Harcourt St. James, Hants

Question 24

No

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When Simon finds the parachutist, is he still alive?

Question 25

he freed them from the rocks and the figure from the wind's indignity.

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Then he took the lines in his hands;

Question 26

Jack

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Follows pig droppings through the jungle

Question 27

No

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Does eating fruit help the boys recover from the pain of diarrhea?

Question 28

He found out it was just a dead pilot.

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What does Simon find when he finally reaches the beast?

Question 29

the center of the ring yawned emptily.

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Roger ceased to be a pig and became a hunter, so that

Question 30

Ralph

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Lives by the rules but grows weary of democracy

Question 31

He enters Jack's stronghold in order to retrieve Piggy's specs.

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How does Jack try to retrieve Piggy's specs?

Question 32

The immoral actions of the group can destroy the innocence of the individual. Acts of evil can result from fear of the unknown.

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The novel Lord of the Flies illustrates what?

Question 33

Piggy

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Who contemplates making a sundial?

Question 34

The evil within the human heart and mind

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While staring at the severed pig's head, Simon has a mystical experience which reveals to him that the beast is?

Question 35

All things good have left.

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After Simon is killed, his body being washed to sea symbolically means what?

Question 36

Simon says that the beast may be inside the boys themselves. By that he means that the beast is not a real physical monster, but something inside of the boys. It could just be that they are all afraid of the idea of there being a beast, or it could also mean that they themselves are beasts and that they will be the cause of their own destruction. He means that civilization and society is leaving the boys and they are all becoming beasts.

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What is Simon saying when he thinks the "beast" may be inside the boys themselves?

Question 37

"Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy."

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When Ralph sobs at the end, why is he weeping?

Question 38

Something about a body on the hill.

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It was crying out against the abominable noise

Question 39

It was a rescue signal. They use Piggy's glasses as a "burning glass."

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How and why do the boys make fire?

Question 40

No

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Does Ralph find Samneric tied up when he climbs Castle Rock?

Question 41

Yes, he warns him of coming violence.

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Does The Lord of the Flies warn Simon about something? If so, what?

Question 42

Hope, power and survival

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The fire represents what?

Question 43

Jack

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Needs a barb on his spear

Question 44

Parachutist

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Bends and rises with each puff of wind

Question 45

Ralph

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Reveals Piggy's degrading nickname to the others

Question 46

He had a natural leadership about him and he had the conch.

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Why is Ralph elected chief?

Question 47

and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.

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The beast was harmless and horrible;

Question 48

Percival

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Tries to identify himself to the officer but cannot

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