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LORD OF THE FLIES
English Final Exam Study Guide
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10th Grade
05/10/2011

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Lord of the Flies: Character: "The hangman's horror clung around him"
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Roger
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Lord of the Flies: Character: " a boy of perhaps six years, sturdy and fair, his clothes torn, his face covered with a sticky mess of fruit."
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Johnny
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Lord of the Flies: Character: "His arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins"
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Roger
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Lord of the Flies: Character: "The tears began to flow and sobs shook him...he wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise, friend..."
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Ralph
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Lord of the Flies: Character: " But there was a stillness about him as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and attractive appearance, and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch."
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Ralph
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Lord of the Flies: Character: " a thing was crawling out of the fores. It came darkly, uncertainly. the shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain. the beast stumbled into the horseshoe"
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Simon
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Lord of the Flies: Character: " For a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, apelike among the tangle of trees...He passed like a shadow under the darkness of the tree and crouched, looking down at the trodden ground at his feet.:
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Jack
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Lord of the Flies: Character: He sighed...then, with the martyred expression of a parent wh has to keep up with the senselss ebulience of the children, he picked up the conch, turned toward the forest, and began to pick his way over the tumbled scar:
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Piggy
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Lord of the Flies: Character: something like a great ape was sitting asleep with its head between its knees...and the creature lifed its head, holding toward them the ruin of a face."
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parachutist
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Lord of the Flies: True or False: Simon predicts that Ralph will get back to civilization safely
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true
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Lord of the Flies: Character: water rose farther and dressed his coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulders became scultured marble. The strange attendant creatures, with their fiery eyes and trailing vapors, busied themselves round his head"
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Simon
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Lord of the Flies: Setting: parachutist lands
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mountaintop
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Lord of the Flies: Setting: Jack establishes fortress
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Castle Rock
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Lord of the Flies: Setting: Simon sits alone and thinks.
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Enclosed bower(shelter of vines)
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Lord of the Flies: Setting: Ralph hides
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Massed thicket(dense growth of bushes or small trees)
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Lord of the Flies: Setting: evacuation plane touches down
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scar
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Lord of the Flies Symbol ID: Intelligence and perceptivity(awareness)
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Piggy
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Lord of the Flies: Symbol ID: Brute Force
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Roger
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Lord of the Flies: Symbol ID: Christ-like goodness
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Simon
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Lord of the Flies: Symbol ID: Parliamentary order: authority
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Conch
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Lord of teh Flies: Symbol ID: common sense and responsibility
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Ralph
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Lord of the Flies- true false: Jack and Ralph are the first two boys to appear on the island
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False
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Lord of the Flies: True or False: The littlun with the birthmark is never seen after the fire
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True
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Lord of the Flies: True or False: Simon feels the beast lives on top of the mountain
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False
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Lord of the Flies: True or False: Ralph eventually believes the tribe wants to destroy him.
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True
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Lord of the Flies: True or False: Percival forgets his name and address as his background and upbringing slip away on the island
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True
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Lord of the Flies: True or False: Ralph tells Jack not to worry about getting the shelters built but to concentrate all his time and energy on learning to hund
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False
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Lord of the Flies: True or False: When Maurice and Roger find three children-Henry, Johnny, and Percival-playing on the beach, they deliberately destroy the youngsters sandcastles
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True
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Lord of the Flies: True or False: Jack eventually apologizes for letting the fire go out.
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True
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Lord of the Flies: True or False: Some of the boys see the figure drifting down from the sky in the parachute
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False
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Lord of the Flies: True or False: The huts represent the joint (combined) efforts of all the boys.
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False
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Lord of the Flies: True or False: The "sign from the grownups" shows that grownups are as savage as the boys on the island
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True
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Lord of the Flies: True or False: The Lord of the Flies tells Simon that the beast cannot be killed
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False
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Lord of the Flies: True or False: No one tells the men from the rescue ship about the two murders on the island
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False
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Lord of the Flies: Multiple choice: Ralph is elected chief mainly because he possesses (a) the conch (b) Piggys backing (c) knowledge of the islands terrain
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the conch
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Lord of the flies: Multiple choice: Jack is the only one who (a) wears a black cloak (b) is cruel to Piggy (c) owns a knife
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owns a knife
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Lord of the Flies: Multiple Choice: Jack's triumph is capturing his first kill is marred by his (a) regret that Ralph did not accompany them (b) letting the signal fire go out (c) being wounded by the animal
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letting the signal fire go out
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Lord of the Flies: Multiple Choice: The "beast in the mountaintop: is actually a (a) snake-thing (b) pig's head (c) dead parachutist
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dead parachutist
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Lord of the flies: Multiple Choice: Jack becomes leader of his tribe by (a) an open election with the choir backing him: (b) forcing the boys to join him (c) leaving Ralph's group and inviting the others to join him
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leaving Ralph's group and inviting the others to join him
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Lord of the Flies: Multiple Choice: The Lord of the Flies is actually (a) a pigs head (b) a dead parachutist (c) Ralph
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a pigs head
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Lord of the Flies: Multiple choice: The only one to climb the mountain in daylight and confront the beast is (a) Jack (b) Samneric (c)Simon
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Simon
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Lord of the Flies: Multiple Choice: In the darkness when the boys think they are killing the beast, they actually kill (a) Jack, (b) Samneric (c) Simon
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Simon
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Lord of the flies: Multiple Choice: In the darkness when the boys think they are killing the beast, they actually kill (a) Simon, (b) Piggy (c) Robert
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Simon
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Lord of the Flies: Multiple Choice: During the raid, Piggy runs to protect the (a) littluns, (b) conch (c) fire
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conch
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Lord of the flies: Multiple Choice: Wilfred is tied up and beaten because (a) Jack orders it (b) he falls asleep on guard duty (c) he let the fire go out.
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Jack orders it
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Lord of the Flies: Multiple Choice: Piggy insists on visitng Jacks tribe to (a) start a signal fire on the mountaintop. (b) convince them to rejoin Ralph's tribe (c) get his glasses back
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get his glasses back
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Lord of teh Flies: Multiple Choice: Ironically, Ralph's life is saved by (a) the help of boys who had previously betrayed him (b) smoke intened to force him out (c) Roger's conscience.
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smoke intended to force him out
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Lord of the Flies: Multiple Choice: When the officer asks who is chief on the island (a) Jack says he is (b) Ralph says he is (c) the boys remain silent
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Ralph says he is
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Lord of the Flies: Multiple Choice: In Lord of the Flies, the author shows that the evil in society results from (a) the evil in all individuals (b) corrupt and evil leaders (c) group action which destroys individual goodness
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the evil in all individuals
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Lord of the Flies: Multiple Choice: Simon is killed because (a) he is too innocent and refuses to take part in Jack's savagery (b) he disobeys orders and investigates the best of evil (c) the boys have progressed so far into a savage world that they can no longer recognize reality.
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the boys have progressed so far into a savage world that they can no longer recognize reality
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