Lord of the Flies
7-8
J. Bailey
CHAPTER 7
1. What does Ralph long for?
2. What distracts the boys from the search for the Beast?
3. What does Ralph daydream about?
4. When the boar charges, what does Ralph do?
5. Who volunteers to go alone through the jungle to tell Piggy the boys will return after dark?
6. What do Ralph, Jack and Roger find when they get to the top of the mountain?
7. When Ralph gets caught up in the pig hunt, what does his reaction tell you about him?
CHAPTER 8
1. How does Jack respond when Ralph calls his hunters “boys armed with sticks?”
2. What does Jack do when the boys do not respond to his demand to be chief?
3. Why does Simon suggest they go back to the mountains?
4. What does Piggy suggest they do, since they can’t return to the mountain to build a fire?
5. What happens to most of the Biguns while Ralph and Piggy are busy?
6. What does Jack ask Roger to do to a stick?
7. How does Jack use the idea of the Beast to control and direct the boys in his tribe?
8. What is “The Lord of the Flies?”.
9. Why does Golding have Simon “communicate” with the Lord of the Flies? Consider what Simon’s character
might represent in the novel.