Lord of the Flies - Chapters 3 and 4

Question 1

Huts on the Beach

When the chapter opens, one of the boys is hunting a pig - which one?

Answer 1

Jack.

Question 2

Huts on the Beach

What issues do Ralph and Simon face when trying to construct shelters for the group?

Answer 2

The liitluns keep running off.

Question 3

Huts on the Beach

“Meetings. Don’t we love meetings? Every day. Twice a day. We talk.” - who makes this complaint?

Answer 3

Ralph.

Question 4

Huts on the Beach

“He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.” - which boy is being described here?

Answer 4

Jack

Question 5

Huts on the Beach

        "We want meat--" - who repeats this demand through the chapter?

Answer 5

Jack

Question 6

Huts on the Beach

Why are the littluns having trouble sleeping?

Answer 6

Dreams of the beast keep them awake.

“As if,” said Simon, “the beastie, the beastie or the snake-thing, was real. Remember?”

Question 7

Huts on the Beach

Which word are we told is “not mentioned now, were not mentionable”?

Answer 7

Snakes.

Question 8

Huts on the Beach

“So we need shelters as a sort of–”

What word completes this quotation?

Answer 8

Home.

Question 9

Huts on the Beach

“He snatched up his spear and dashed it into the ground.” - which boy does this describe?

Answer 9

Jack

Question 10

Huts on the Beach

“I was talking about smoke! Don’t you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!” - who speaks these lines to Jack?

Answer 10

Ralph

Question 11

Huts on the Beach

“He’s queer. He’s funny.”

Who are Ralph and Jack talking about with this conversation?

Answer 11

Simon

Question 12

Huts on the Beach

“They looked at each other, baffled, in _______ and _____.”

What words does Golding use to describe the relationship between Jack and Ralph here?

Answer 12

Love and hate.

Question 13

Huts on the Beach

“He was a small, skinny boy, his chin pointed, and his eyes so bright they had deceived Ralph into thinking him delightfully gay and wicked.“

Who is being described here?

Answer 13

Simon

Question 14

Huts on the Beach

What does Simon give to the littluns in this chapter?

Answer 14

Fruit from the trees.

Question 15

Huts on the Beach

What key location does Simon discover at the end of this chapter?

Answer 15

The clearing: this will later be the scene of his discussions with ‘The Lord of the Flies’.

Question 16

Painted Faces and Long Hair

The smaller boys were known now by the generic title of “______”

What word does Golding use to describe the smaller boys?

Answer 16

Littluns.

Question 17

Painted Faces and Long Hair

They were used now to ____________ and a sort of chronic ________________. They suffered _______ _________ in the dark and huddled together for comfort.

What words complete this description of the littluns?

Answer 17

Stomach aches, diarrhoea, untold terrors.

Question 18

Painted Faces and Long Hair

_______ led the way straight through the castles, kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones.

Which boy is being described here?

Answer 18

Roger.

Question 19

Painted Faces and Long Hair

_____ stooped, picked up a stone, aimed, and threw it at Henry– threw it to miss.

Which boy throws the first stone in the novel?

Answer 19

Roger

Question 20

Painted Faces and Long Hair

Which event does Roger’s throwing of stones foreshadow?

Answer 20

The death of Piggy

Question 21

Painted Faces and Long Hair

“Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw.”

What reasons does Golding give for why the stone is not thrown directly at Henry?

Answer 21

Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

Question 22

Painted Faces and Long Hair

Jack, concealed from the sun, knelt by the pool and opened the two large leaves that he carried.

What’s inside these two leaves?

Answer 22

White clay and red clay: the boys are going to paint their faces.

Question 23

Painted Faces and Long Hair

Why do the boys paint their faces in this chapter?

Answer 23

To help them hunt the pigs.

Question 24

Painted Faces and Long Hair

“For hunting. Like in the war. You know–dazzle paint. Like things trying to look like something else–”

Who describes the paint like this?

Answer 24

Jack

Question 25

**Painted Faces and Long Hair** After painting his face, Jack "began to dance and his laughter became a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_" What does Jack's laughter turn into?

Answer 25

Bloodthirsty snarling.

Question 26

**Painted Faces and Long Hair** "the __________ was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid." "The ________ compelled them." What missing word completes these key quotations?

Answer 26

Mask.

Question 27

**Painted Faces and Long Hair** "I've been thinking," he said, "about a clock. We could make a sundial. We could put a stick in the sand, and then--" Whose idea is this?

Answer 27

Piggy's.

Question 28

**Painted Faces and Long Hair** There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by \_\_\_\_\_, and \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, and \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. What reasons do the boys have for treating Piggy like an outsider?

Answer 28

Fat, ass-mar and specs.

Question 29

**Painted Faces and Long Hair** What does Ralph spot in this chapter?

Answer 29

A ship.

Question 30

**Painted Faces and Long Hair** Why aren't the boys rescued in this chapter?

Answer 30

The hunters have let the fire go out: therefore, ship fails to see their smoke signal.

Question 31

**Painted Faces and Long Hair** We get our first glimpse of the hunters' famous chant in this chapter. What is it?

Answer 31

"Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood."

Question 32

**Painted Faces and Long Hair** What have the hunters been doing while they should have been watching the fire?

Answer 32

Killing their first pig.

Question 33

**Painted Faces and Long Hair** "There was \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_," said Jack, laughing and shuddering, "you should have seen it!" How does Jack describe the killing of the pig?

Answer 33

Lashings of blood.

Question 34

**Painted Faces and Long Hair** "There was a ship. Out there. You said you'd keep the fire going and you let it out!" Who shouts these lines?

Answer 34

Ralph

Question 35

**Painted Faces and Long Hair** "You didn't ought to have let that fire out. You said you'd keep the smoke going--" What is Jack's response to this complaint from Piggy?

Answer 35

He took a step, and able at last to hit someone, stuck his fist into Piggy's stomach.

Question 36

**Painted Faces and Long Hair** What gets broken in this chapter?

Answer 36

Piggy's spectacles, or at least one side of them.

Question 37

**Painted Faces and Long Hair** Who initially doesn't get meat when they roast the pig? Who gives it to him?

Answer 37

Piggy doesn't get meat. Simon gives him his portion, which angers Jack.

Question 38

**Painted Faces and Long Hair** Who reenacts the death of the pig?

Answer 38

Then **Maurice** pretended to be the pig and ran squealing into the center, and the hunters, circling still, pretended to beat him. As they danced, they sang.

Question 39

**Painted Faces and Long Hair** What does Ralph decide to do at the end of this chapter?

Answer 39

Call an assembly.