Chapter 1 Key Quotes

Question 1

ralph: ‘the boy with fair…

Answer 1

hair’

Question 2

piggy: ‘it…

Answer 2

said’

Question 3

ralph: ‘jerked his stockings with an…

Answer 3

automatic gesture which made the jungle seem for a moment like the Home Counties’

Question 4

piggy : ‘greasy…

Answer 4

windbreaker’

Question 5

piggy: ‘naked crooks of his knees…

Answer 5

were plump, caught and scratched by thorns’

Question 6

piggy: ‘he was shorter than…

Answer 6

the fair boy and very fat’

Question 7

piggy: ‘looked up through…

Answer 7

thick spectacles’

Question 8

piggy: ‘perhaps there…

Answer 8

aren’t any grownups anywhere’

Question 9

piggy: ‘the fat…

Answer 9

boy’

Question 10

ralph/innocence: ‘he stood on…

Answer 10

his head’

Question 11

nature: ‘all round him the…

Answer 11

long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat’

Question 12

nature: ‘creepers…

Answer 12

and broken trunks’

Question 13

innocence: ‘no…

Answer 13

grownups!’

Question 14

piggy: ‘we was…

Answer 14

attacked!’

Question 15

man/nature: ‘this is what…

Answer 15

the cabin done’

Question 16

piggy and ralph: ‘the fat boy waited…

Answer 16

to be asked his name in return but this proffer of acquaintance was not made’

Question 17

piggy: ‘my auntie told me..

Answer 17

not to run’

Question 18

ralph and piggy: ‘ass-

Answer 18

mar?’

Question 19

piggy: ‘i was the only boy…

Answer 19

in our school what had asthma’

Question 20

piggy: ‘i’ve been wearing…

Answer 20

specs since i was three’

Question 21

piggy: ‘an expression of pain…

Answer 21

and inward concentration’

Question 22

nature: ‘coarse grass…

Answer 22

torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees’

Question 23

nature: ‘decaying…

Answer 23

coconuts’

Question 24

nature: ‘shimmering…

Answer 24

water’

Question 25

nature: 'blue of all...

Answer 25

shades and shadowy green and purple'

Question 26

innocence: 'he became conscious...

Answer 26

of the weight of clothes'

Question 27

nature: 'dazzling beach and...

Answer 27

the water'

Question 28

ralph: 'lost the prominent...

Answer 28

tummy of childhood'

Question 29

ralph: 'he might make...

Answer 29

a boxer'

Question 30

ralph: 'there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes...

Answer 30

that proclaimed no devil'

Question 31

ralph: 'ralph's...

Answer 31

golden body'

Question 32

piggy/leadership: 'we ought to...

Answer 32

have a meeting'

Question 33

ralph and piggy: 'ralph shrieked..

Answer 33

with laughter'

Question 34

ralph and piggy: 'piggy!...

Answer 34

piggy!'

Question 35

ralph and piggy: 'piggy clasped his hands...

Answer 35

in apprehension'

Question 36

piggy: 'pleased despite himself...

Answer 36

at even this much recognition'

Question 37

nature: 'great platform of...

Answer 37

pink granite'

Question 38

nature: 'a school of tiny...

Answer 38

glittering fish'

Question 39

finish the quote: 'clear to the bottom and bright..

Answer 39

with the efflorescence of tropical weed and coral'

Question 40

nature/religion: 'some act...

Answer 40

of god'

Question 41

nature: 'the water was warmer...

Answer 41

than his blood'

Question 42

ralph and piggy: 'sucks to...

Answer 42

your auntie!'

Question 43

ralph: 'a golden light...

Answer 43

danced'

Question 44

ralph and piggy: 'sucks to your...

Answer 44

ass-mar!'

Question 45

innocence and ralph: 'daddy..

Answer 45

taught me'

Question 46

piggy and suffering: 'my dad's...

Answer 46

dead'

Question 47

piggy and suffering: 'i used to live with my...

Answer 47

auntie. she kept a candy store'

Question 48

world outside : 'about the atom..

Answer 48

bomb? they're all dead.'

Question 49

piggy and death: 'we may stay here...

Answer 49

til we die'

Question 50

piggy/law/order: 'we got to find...

Answer 50

the others. we got to do something'

Question 51

piggy: 'a conch..

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he called it'

Question 52

piggy: 'careful! you'll...

Answer 52

break it!'

Question 53

piggy and ralph: 'shut..

Answer 53

up'

Question 54

conch/law/order/innocence: 'the shell was interesting...

Answer 54

and pretty and a worthy plaything'

Question 55

conch/law/order/good: 'the shell was deep cream...

Answer 55

touched here and there with fading pink'

Question 56

piggy/law/order/conch: 'we can use this to...

Answer 56

call the others. have a meeting'

Question 57

innocence/ralph and piggy: 'this amused both boys so much...

Answer 57

that ralph went on squirting for some minutes, between bouts of laughter'

Question 58

nature: 'a sticky...

Answer 58

mess of fruit'

Question 59

innocence: 'a pink thumb...

Answer 59

slid into his mouth'