LOTF Questions

Question 1

When was the novel published?

Answer 1

1954

Question 2

Golding served in the navy of which war?

Answer 2

World War II

Question 3

Why did Golding have detailed experience of how boys interact and behave?

Answer 3

He worked as a teacher

Question 4

What did Golding admit to having a problematic relationship with?

Answer 4

Alcohol

Question 5

Which novel influenced Golding’s decision to write the novel?

Answer 5

Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne

Question 6

Why are the boys on the island?

Answer 6

Their plane crashed while they were being evacuated (an atomic bomb was dropped).

Question 7

What does Piggy suffer from?

Answer 7

Asthma

Question 8

What is the name of the choir boy who faints?

Answer 8

Simon

Question 9

Who says “I ought to be chief.”?

Answer 9

Jack

Question 10

Who suggests blowing the conch to find others?

Answer 10

Piggy

Question 11

What does the conch symbolise?

Answer 11

Democracy / Civilisation

Question 12

What are Ralph’s priorites? What are Jack’s?

Answer 12

Rescue, the fire, building shelters / hunting

Question 13

In chapter 2, what animal is the beast described as?

Answer 13

A snake

Question 14

Which littlun does the fire in chapter 2 kill?

Answer 14

The boy with mullberry coloured birthmark

Question 15

What kind of imagery starting with ‘A’ does Golding use to describe Jack at the beginning of chapter 3?

Answer 15

animalistic

Question 16

How do the boys start a fire in chapter 2?

Answer 16

By taking Piggy’s glasses to use as ‘burning glasses’

Question 17

Who takes Piggy’s glasses in chapter 2?

Answer 17

Jack

Question 18

Where does Simon go at the end of chapter 3?

Answer 18

He goes by himself Into an open space, a clearing, in the jungle.

Question 19

What does Roger do at the start of chapter 4?

Answer 19

He kicks over the littluns sandcastles and throws stones (to miss) at Henry

Question 20

What ‘liberated [Jack] from shame and self-consciousness’?

Answer 20

His face mask

Question 21

Complete: “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill ___ ___.”

Answer 21

Spill her blood

Question 22

What does Jack do to Piggy in chapter 4?

Answer 22

He punches him in the stomach, causing one lens of his glasses to break.

Question 23

What does Simon give to Piggy in chapter 4?

Answer 23

His piece of meat.

Question 24

Why are Ralph and Piggy so angry about the hunters letting the fire go out?

Answer 24

Because they saw a ship.

Question 25

What 'c' does rescue symbolise? What 's' does hunting symbolise?

Answer 25

Civilisation / Savagery

Question 26

Ralph calls an assembly in chapter 5 'to put ___ ___.;

Answer 26

thing straight

Question 27

What does Ralph say is the most important thing on the island?

Answer 27

The fire

Question 28

Complete: "Bollocks to ___ ___".

Answer 28

The rules (Jack)

Question 29

Where does Percival say the beast comes from?

Answer 29

The sea

Question 30

Who says: "Unless we get frightened of people."?

Answer 30

Piggy

Question 31

What does Simon believe about the beast?

Answer 31

That it's inside of us: "maybe it's only us."

Question 32

What does Jack try and take from Piggy in chapter 5?

Answer 32

The conch

Question 33

Complete: "If there's a beast, we'll ___ ___ ___".

Answer 33

hunt it down (Jack)

Question 34

What do Jack and his hunters do after the assembly breaks up in chapter 5?

Answer 34

They chant and dance

Question 35

Why doesn't Ralph blow the conch at the end of chapter 5?

Answer 35

Because he thinks the others might not come and then there will be no more order on the island.

Question 36

Sam and Eric think they see the beast - what do they actually see?

Answer 36

A dead parachutist

Question 37

Complete: "We don't need the ___ anymore."

Answer 37

Conch

Question 38

"The picture of a human at once heroic and sick" - who thinks this about what?

Answer 38

Simon about the beast

Question 39

Why does Ralph get angry at the others at the end of chapter 6?

Answer 39

Because the Jack and his hunters want to make a fort and roll rocks (rather than look for the beast)

Question 40

How does Ralph show signs of savagery and violence in chapter 7?

Answer 40

He joins with the hunt (hits the boar with a spear) and participates in a mock hunt/killing of Robert.

Question 41

Complete: "The desire to squeeze and hurt was ___"

Answer 41

over-mastering

Question 42

Who does Jack say they could use in a mock hunt where the 'pig' is actually killed?

Answer 42

A littlun

Question 43

Who volunteers to go back to the beach on their own to be with Piggy and the littluns?

Answer 43

Simon

Question 44

Complete: 'Something like a great ___ was sitting asleep with its head between its knees.'

Answer 44

ape

Question 45

a white blob' describes what at the beginning of chapter 8?

Answer 45

The conch

Question 46

Jack says 'The beast is a ___', what?

Answer 46

hunter

Question 47

Why does Jack run into the jungle at the beginning of chapter 8?

Answer 47

Because no one voted to remove Ralph as chief

Question 48

What is the significance of Jack saying, 'I'm not going to be part of Ralph's lot-'?

Answer 48

It separates the boys into two opposing factions. / Jack has rejected democracy

Question 49

What does Jack and his hunters killing the sow symbolise?

Answer 49

Lust for violence (irrespective of consequences) / An attack on vulnerablity (and love/care?)

Question 50

A gift.' Of what? For whom?

Answer 50

The sow's head for the beast

Question 51

Complete: 'wedded to her in ____'

Answer 51

lust

Question 52

Complete: 'Fancy thinking the beast was something you could ___ and ___'

Answer 52

hunt / kill

Question 53

Complete: 'I'm part of you. ___, ____, ____!'

Answer 53

close

Question 54

What does Simon do at the start of chapter 9?

Answer 54

He frees the lines of parachutist from the rocks

Question 55

Jack 'sat there like an idol', what does this mean?

Answer 55

Jack is revered and worshipped by his tribe

Question 56

Why do the boys start dancing in chapter 9?

Answer 56

Because they are scared of the storm

Question 57

Complete: 'authority sat on his shoulder and chatterred in his ear like an ___'

Answer 57

ape

Question 58

Complete: 'Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Do ___ ___'

Answer 58

him in

Question 59

Complete: 'there were no words, and no movements but the tearing of ___ and ___'

Answer 59

teeth/claws

Question 60

As Simon's body drifts out to sea Golding uses a semantic field: 'pearls', 'silver', 'marble'. What does this suggest about Simon?

Answer 60

His purity and invaluable worth (Christ-like figure)

Question 61

In chapter 10, how does Piggy try to avoid responsibility/guilt for the death of Simon?

Answer 61

We was scared' / 'P'raps he was only pretending-' / 'It was an accident' / 'He asked for it'

Question 62

Complete: 'I'm frightened of ___' (Ralph, chapter 10)

Answer 62

us

Question 63

Why does Jack tie and beat Wilfred?

Answer 63

He doesn't say ('irresponsible authority')

Question 64

In chapter 11, Jack takes responsibility for the death of Simon - true or false?

Answer 64

False. He says Simon was the beast in disguise and that boys cannot kill the beast ('How could we - kill - it?'

Question 65

What do Jack and his hunters steal? What does this symbolise?

Answer 65

Piggy's glasses. Seizing power / loss of clarity, reason, civilisation

Question 66

Complete: 'not because your strong, but because what's ___ is ___'

Answer 66

right

Question 67

You're Chief, Ralph. You remember everything.' - who says this?

Answer 67

Piggy

Question 68

Complete: 'Which is better, law and ___, or ___ and breaking things up?'?

Answer 68

rescue / hunting

Question 69

Complete: 'Below him, Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy a ___ of ___'

Answer 69

bag / fat

Question 70

Complete: Piggy lifted the white, ___ shell'

Answer 70

magic

Question 71

What happens to the conch in chapter 11?

Answer 71

exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist'

Question 72

True or false: Jack takes responsibility for Piggy's murder?

Answer 72

True: "I meant that!"

Question 73

What is the pig's skull compared to in chapter 12?

Answer 73

The conch

Question 74

Roger sharpened a stick at both ends.' - what is he planning to do?

Answer 74

Decapitate Ralph and put his head on the stick

Question 75

What does Ralph compare himself to when he is being hunted?

Answer 75

A pig

Question 76

What is ironic about the ending of the story?

Answer 76

It was the fire that destroyed the island that allowed the boys to be rescued/the boys are saved from savagery by a symbol war

Question 77

What book is mentioned again at the end of the story?

Answer 77

Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne

Question 78

What happens to the island at the end of the story?

Answer 78

It burns down.

Question 79

Who rescues the boys at the end of the story?

Answer 79

A Naval Officer

Question 80

What did Ralph weep for at the end of the story?

Answer 80

the end of innocence / the darkness of man's heart / the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy