Lord of the Flies Chapter 3-4 Questions/Quiz/Answers

Lord of the Flies
Worksheet: Chapter 3 Huts on the Beach
Answer the questions. For each answer, indicate the page number in
parentheses.10 pts.
1. What is Jack doing as the chapter opens (be specific)?
2. Ralph and _________ are building huts.
3. Why can't Jack get the pig to stay on his spear?
4. All the hunters but Jack have gone where?
5. Who helps the littluns get fruit?
6. At the end of the chapter, where does Simon go?
Who Said it? (Indicate page number)
7. "We want meat!"
8. "I was talking about smoke! Don't you want to be rescued? All you talk
about it pig,
pig pig!"
9. "I thought I might kill"
Lord of the Flies
Worksheet: Chapter 3 Huts on the Beach
Answer the questions. For each answer, indicate the page number in
parentheses.10 pts.
1. What is Jack doing as the chapter opens (be specific)?
Tracking a pig (48)
2. Ralph and _________ are building huts.
Simon (50, 54)
3. What does Jack need to get the pig to stay on his spear?
He needs a barb (51)
4. All the hunters but Jack have gone where?
Swimming (51)
5. Who helps the littluns get fruit?

Simon(56)
6. At the end of the chapter, where does Simon go?
Deep into the Jungle (56-57)
Who Said it? (Indicate page number)
7. "We want meat!"
Jack (51,54)
8. "I was talking about smoke! Don't you want to be rescued? All you talk
about is pig,
pig pig!"
Ralph (54)
9. "I thought I might kill"
Jack (51)
Lord of the Flies
Worksheet: Chapter 4 Painted Faces and Long Hair
Answer the questions. For each answer, indicate the page number in
parentheses.10 pts.
1. Who "still felt the unease of wrongdoing?"
2. Who was affected by the "taboo of the old life?"
3. How was Jack "liberated from the shame of self-consciousness?"

Why did the "littluns" always obey the summons of the conch?

4.
5.
6. Why did Jack want Samneric to get him a coconut?

7. Why weren't the boys rescued?

8. Why were the littluns used to "Stomach aches and a sort or chronic
diarrheoa?"

Who said it?
9. "You don't half look a mess"

10. "They don't smell me. They see me, I think. Something pink, under the
trees."
Lord of the Flies
Worksheet: Chapter 4 Painted Faces and Long Hair
Answer the questions. For each answer, indicate the page number in
parentheses.10 pts.
1. Who "still felt the unease of wrongdoing?"
Maurice (60)
2. Who was affected by the "taboo of the old life?"
Roger (62)
3. How was Jack "liberated from the shame of self-consciousness?"
By painting on a mask (64)
Why did the "littluns" always obey the summons of the conch?

4. Ralph was big enough to be a link with the adult world of
authority (59)
5. They enjoyed the entertainment of the assemblies (59)
6. Why did Jack want Samneric to get him a coconut?
So he could see his reflection (63)
7. Why weren't the boys rescued?
The hunters had let the fire go out (69)
8. Why were the littluns used to "Stomach aches and a sort or chronic
diarrheoa?"
They weren't particular about the fruit they chose (59)
Who said it?
9. "You don't half look a mess"
Roger (63)
10. "They don't smell me. They see me, I think. Something pink, under the
trees."
Jack (63)

Lord of the Flies Chapter 2 Questions/Quiz/Answers

Lord of the Flies
Worksheet: Chapter 2
Answer the questions. For each answer, indicate the page number in
parentheses.10 pts.
1. Who is the only one who may interrupt the speaker holding the conch?
2. Who saw the beast/beastie/snake-like thing?
3. Who says, again and again that there isn't a beast?
4. On Page 37, Ralph makes a two-fold "mission statement." What are the
two parts?
1.
2.
5. Why do they need a fire?
6. What did the boys use to start the fire?
7. Who is the first boy to die?
Who said it? (remember to indicate page numbers)
8. "How do you expect to be rescued if you don't put first things first
and
act proper?"
9. "I told you to. I told you to get a list of names!"
10. "We'll have rules! Lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks 'em-"
Lord of the Flies
Worksheet: Chapter 2
Answer the questions. For each answer, indicate the page number in
parentheses.10 pts.
1. Who is the only one who may interrupt the speaker holding the conch?
Ralph
2. Who saw the beast/beastie/snake-like thing?
The boy with the birth mark
3. Who says, again and again that there isn't a beast?
Ralph
4. On Page 37, Ralph makes a two-fold "mission statement." What are the
two
parts?
1. We want to have fun
2. We want to be rescued
5. Why do they need a fire?
To signal ships or planes in order to be rescued
6. What did the boys use to start the fire?
Piggy's specs (glasses)
7. Who is the first boy to die?
The boy with the mulberry birth-mark
Who said it? (remember to indicate page numbers)
8. "How do you expect to be rescued if you don't put first things first
and
act proper?"
Piggy
9. "I told you to. I told you to get a list of names!"
Ralph
10. "We'll have rules! Lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks 'em-"
Jack

Lord of the Flies Chapter 1 Questions/Quiz/Answers

Lord of the Flies
Worksheet: Chapter 1
Answer the questions. For each answer, indicate the page number in
parentheses.10 pts.

1. How did the boys arrive on the island?
2. How did Ralph call the first meeting?
3. What are the names of the twins?
4. What does Ralph's dad do?
5. What nationality are the boys?
6. The island was roughly _______ - shaped.
7. What is the "scar?"
8. For whom did Piggy vote as chief?
9. Who went to make sure the island was really an island?
a.
b.
c.
10. Who is your favorite character so far?
Lord of the Flies
KEY
Worksheet: Chapter 1
Answer the questions. For each answer, indicate the page number in
parentheses.10 pts.
1. How did the boys arrive on the island?
Their plane crashed (was shot down).
2. How did Ralph call the first meeting?
By blowing on the conch shell.
3. What are the names of the twins?
Sam and Eric.
4. What does Ralph's dad do?
He is in the [Royal] Navy.
5. What nationality are the boys?
English or British.
6. The island was roughly boat - shaped.
7. What is the "scar?"
Where the plane landed
8. For whom did Piggy vote as chief?
Ralph
9. Who went to make sure the island was really an island?
a. Ralph
b. Jack
c. Simon
10. Who is your favorite character so far?
Any answer is acceptable (as long as it's a character in the book)

Reading Strategies for Lord of the Flies

Reading Strategies
Techniques for Reading Difficult Material

1. Employ metacognition – be aware of your own thinking process – KNOW that the task is to read with full comprehension, monitor your own progress as you read – keep the goal in mind and employ a new strategy or back up if you sense that comprehension isn’t adequate
2. Predict success realistically and plan accordingly – (don’t assume you can read one chapter in five minutes – don’t underestimate)
3. Read at varying speeds – slowly through the first time; and more slowly through passages with difficult language
4. Activate prior knowledge - recall or list all that you know about the work before the reading
5. Periodically make predictions about what will happen next and check confirmation of those predictions
6. Summarize, or paraphrase small sections of the work
7. Make inferences and associations
8. Make comparisons and note differences
9. Control setting – choose a reading environment that works
10. Share with others – tell friends or family about individual chapters
11. Read actively with a journal – take notes or annotate

What are some more strategies you can think of?
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Lord of the Flies Learning Log

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