Lord of the Flies Flashcards
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What is Chapter 1 called?
The Sound of the Shell.
How do the boys come to be on the island?
Their plane crashes there during a war, while they are being evacuated.
Which two boys meet first in Chapter 1?
Ralph and Piggy.
What do Ralph and Piggy find in the lagoon in Chapter 1?
A conch shell, which Ralph blows to call the other boys.
Who is voted chief at the first assembly?
Ralph; Jack’s choir become the hunters.
What does Jack fail to do at the end of Chapter 1?
Kill a piglet caught in the creepers.
What is Chapter 2 called?
Fire on the Mountain.
What is used to light the first fire?
Piggy’s glasses, focusing the sun (Chapter 2).
Who goes missing after the first fire burns out of control?
The littlun with the mulberry-coloured birthmark (Chapter 2).
What is Chapter 4 called?
Painted Faces and Long Hair.
What passes the island in Chapter 4 while the signal fire is out?
A ship.
Why has the signal fire gone out in Chapter 4?
Jack took Samneric, who should have been minding it, hunting.
What breaks when Jack hits Piggy in Chapter 4?
One lens of Piggy’s glasses.
What is Chapter 6 called?
Beast from Air.
What lands on the mountain top in Chapter 6?
A dead parachutist, from an air battle above the island.
Which boys first mistake the dead parachutist for the beast?
Samneric, while minding the fire at night (Chapter 6).
What is Chapter 8 called?
Gift for the Darkness.
What happens when Jack asks the boys to vote Ralph out in Chapter 8?
Nobody votes, so Jack leaves to start his own tribe.
What do the hunters leave in the forest as a gift for the beast?
A sow’s head on a stick sharpened at both ends (Chapter 8).
What is Chapter 9 called?
A View to a Death.
How is Simon killed in Chapter 9?
The boys, dancing in a storm, mistake him for the beast and attack him.
What do Jack’s hunters steal in their night raid in Chapter 10?
Piggy’s glasses; Ralph had expected them to take the conch.
What is Chapter 11 called?
Castle Rock.
Who kills Piggy?
Roger, by levering a rock down on him at Castle Rock (Chapter 11).
What do the hunters do to the island to force Ralph out of hiding in Chapter 12?
Set the forest on fire.
Who finds Ralph on the beach at the end?
A British naval officer, whose ship saw the smoke.
How old is Ralph?
About twelve.
What is Ralph’s father’s job?
A commander in the Navy.
What illness does Piggy have?
Asthma; he is also short-sighted and wears glasses.
Who brought Piggy up?
His auntie, who kept a sweet shop.
Who tells the other boys Piggy’s nickname, after promising not to?
Ralph (Chapter 1).
What is Jack’s surname?
Merridew.
What group is Jack leading when he first appears?
A school choir, in black cloaks and caps.
What colour is Jack’s hair?
Red.
Which character has fainting fits?
Simon.
Where does Simon go to be alone?
A hidden clearing in the forest, screened by creepers.
Which character picks fruit for the littluns in Chapter 3?
Simon.
Who is Roger?
A secretive, cruel boy who becomes Jack’s most violent follower.
Who are Samneric?
The twins Sam and Eric, who act and speak as one.
Which boys stay loyal to Ralph longest, until they are captured?
Samneric (taken at Castle Rock, Chapter 11).
Which littlun recites his name and address to comfort himself?
Percival Wemys Madison.
At which littlun does Roger throw stones, aiming to miss, in Chapter 4?
Henry.
Which littlun says he saw something moving in the trees at night?
Phil (Chapter 5); it was really Simon.
Which boy does Jack have tied up and beaten in Chapter 10?
Wilfred, for no reason that is given.
Which character is often read as a Christ-like figure?
Simon.
Civilisation: which object stands for order and democracy?
The conch.
Science and reason: what do Piggy’s glasses stand for?
Science and reason, and the power to make fire.
Rescue: what stands for the boys’ hope of rescue?
The signal fire.
Fear: what does the beast stand for?
The boys’ fear, and the evil inside them.
Fear: which littlun says the beast comes out of the sea?
Percival (Chapter 5).
Evil: which character has a conversation with the pig’s head?
Simon (Chapter 8).
Evil: what is the Lord of the Flies?
The pig’s head on the stick, swarming with flies.
Savagery: what does Jack use to paint his face in Chapter 4?
Clay and charcoal.
Savagery: what do Jack’s tribe call him after the split?
The Chief.
Power: where does Jack’s tribe make its stronghold?
Castle Rock.
Power: what does Jack offer the boys to win them to his side?
Meat, hunting and a feast.
Loss of innocence: what does Ralph do when the naval officer arrives?
He weeps, and the other boys start crying too.
Civilisation: which boy insists Simon’s death was an accident?
Piggy (Chapter 10).
Civilisation: what is destroyed along with Piggy in Chapter 11?
The conch.
When was Lord of the Flies published?
1954.
Which firm published Lord of the Flies?
Faber and Faber.
When did William Golding live?
1911–1993.
What was Golding’s job when he wrote Lord of the Flies?
Teacher at Bishop Wordsworth’s School, Salisbury.
In which service did Golding fight in the Second World War?
The Royal Navy, including the D-Day landings.
Which prize did Golding win in 1983?
The Nobel Prize in Literature.
Which 1857 adventure novel does Lord of the Flies answer?
The Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne.
Which two character names does Golding borrow from The Coral Island?
Ralph and Jack.
Which weapon does Piggy say the pilot talked about?
The atom bomb.
Which tension between East and West was building when the novel came out?
The Cold War.
What does the name ’Lord of the Flies’ translate?
Beelzebub, a name for the devil.
Who says “Sucks to your ass-mar!”?
Ralph, mocking Piggy (Chapter 1).
Complete Jack’s claim to be chief: “I’m chapter chorister and head boy. …”
“… I can sing C sharp.” (Chapter 1)
Who says “We’ve got to have rules and obey them”?
Jack (Chapter 2).
Who says “the English are best at everything”?
Jack (Chapter 2).
Which character often says “I got the conch”?
Piggy, trying to be heard.
Which chant do the hunters sing in Chapter 4?
“Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”
Behind his painted mask, what is Jack “liberated from”?
“shame and self-consciousness” (Chapter 4).
Whose arm was “conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins”?
Roger’s, throwing stones at Henry (Chapter 4).
Who says “maybe it’s only us” about the beast?
Simon (Chapter 5).
Who asks “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
Piggy (Chapter 5).
What does the Lord of the Flies tell Simon? “Fancy thinking the Beast was …”
“… something you could hunt and kill!” (Chapter 8)
Which three words does the Lord of the Flies say to Simon about where the beast is?
“I’m part of you” (Chapter 8).
What two words describe the beast when Simon finds the parachutist?
“harmless and horrible” (Chapter 9).
Who asks “Which is better—to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?”
Piggy, at Castle Rock (Chapter 11).
Into what does the conch explode when Piggy is killed?
“a thousand white fragments” (Chapter 11).
With what “sense of” does Roger lean on the lever?
“delirious abandonment” (Chapter 11).
What three words does the naval officer use for what he thinks the boys are doing?
“Fun and games” (Chapter 12).
Who does the officer expect to have “put up a better show”?
“a pack of British boys” (Chapter 12).
Complete: “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, …”
“… the darkness of man’s heart” (Chapter 12).
How many chapters does Lord of the Flies have?
Twelve.
What kind of story did Golding call Lord of the Flies?
A fable; it is often called an allegory.
What kind of narrator tells the novel?
A third-person omniscient narrator.
Whose point of view is the story mostly told from?
Ralph’s.
What does the crashed plane leave in the jungle at the start?
A long scar.
What weather breaks as Simon is killed?
A violent storm: pathetic fallacy.
What do the boys roll off the mountain top in Chapter 1, foreshadowing Piggy’s death?
A great rock.
What surrounds Simon’s body as the tide carries it out to sea?
Glowing, luminous sea creatures.
Through whose eyes are the boys seen in the final pages?
The naval officer’s, so they look like small, dirty children.
What irony is there in the boys’ rescue?
The officer’s own ship is fighting in a war.