Quizzes
Summary Quizzes
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Chapter 1 -- "The Sound of the Shell"
Chapter 2 -- "Fire on the Mountain"
Chapter 3 -- "Huts on the Beach"
Chapter 4 -- "Painted Faces and Long Hair"
Chapter 5 -- "Beast from Water"
Chapter 6 -- "Beast from Air"
Chapter 7 -- "Shadows and Tall Trees"
Chapter 8 -- "Gift for the Darkness"
Chapter 9 -- "A View to a Death"
Chapter 10 -- "The Shell and the Glasses"
Chapter 11 -- "Castle Rock"
Chapter 12 -- "Cry of the Hunters"
Quote Quizzes:
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Quote Quiz chapter 1 - 6
Quote Quiz chapters 7 - 12
Crossword Puzzle:
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Interactive Crossword Puzzle
Jeopardy:
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LOTF PowerPoint Jeopardy Game -- Review Lord of the Flies using Jeopardy
Other Quizzes: Below are links to quizzes on the Internet.
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Character Quiz
GradeSaver LOTF Quiz
CliffsNotes Review Quiz
Reading Check Quiz
Sparknotes's Review Quiz
Lord of the Flies General Quiz
FunTrivia -- Lord of the Flies
FunTrivia -- Who's Who in Lord of the Flies
FunTrivia -- General Reading Quiz
FunTrivia -- Character and Symbolism
Reading and Study Guides: These were passed out in class.
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Chapter 1
o Chpt. 1 Guide (pdf)
o Chpt. 1 Guide (doc)
Chapter 2
o Chpt. 2 Guide (pdf)
o Chpt. 2 Guide (doc)
Chapter 3
o Chpt. 3 Guide (pdf)
o Chpt. 3 Guide (doc)
Chapter 4
o Chpt. 4 Guide (pdf)
o Chpt. 4 Guide (doc)
Chapter 5
o Chpt. 5 Guide (pdf)
o Chpt. 5 Guide (doc)
Chapter 6
o Chpt. 6 Guide (pdf)
o Chpt. 6 Guide (doc)
Chapter 7
o Chpt. 7 Guide (pdf)
o Chpt. 7 Guide (doc)
Chapter 8
o Chpt. 8 Guide (pdf)
o Chpt. 8 Guide (doc)
Chapter 9
o Chpt. 9 Guide (pdf)
o Chpt. 9 Guide (doc)
Chapter 10
o Chpt. 10 Guide (pdf)
o Chpt. 10 Guide (doc)
Chapter 11
o Chpt. 11 Guide (pdf)
o Chpt. 11 Guide (doc)
Chapter 12
o Chpt. 12 Guide (pdf)
o Chpt. 12 Guide (doc)
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Novel Guides:
Below are links to sites that will help you understand and think about Lord of the Flies. They are
not meant to be used as substitutes for the novel. They only help when used along with the novel.
They will not help you on reading comprehension quizzes. Pay attention to the analyses on these
pages. They should help you to start getting ideas about the book. Ignore all advertisements on
the following sites.
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Cliff's Notes
Sparknotes
Barron's Booknotes
Classic Notes
Book Rags
Novelguide.com
PinkMonkey
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Text Online
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Novel -- Click here to read the novel, if you don't have your copy of the book. The file
is big, so it might take a few minutes to load.
o Strategy: once this file is open, you can search it by pressing control + F. You
will discover that the word savage is used 67 times in the novel. You can figure
out that fragile is used 3 times to describe the conch. Mirage is used 11 times in
the novel. Search the word buzz and see how many times it is used to describe the
sound the boys are making.
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Papers/Projects
Projects:
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Man's Inhumanity Project sheet (pdf)
Human Good Deeds (pdf)
Papers:
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Jack as Animal (chapter 3)
o T-Analysis Sheet
-- Use this to gather examples
o Anaylsis of Jack as Animal
-- Follow these directions to write your paragraph.
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Theme Analysis Paper --This is the paper we worked on after we finished LOTF. Use
2-3 of the topic sentences we came up with in our in-class brainstorming.
Group Discussion Questions -- We will write a paper in groups. (Honors students see me
for handout)
"I Shot an Arrow in the Air" -- (Write a paper on this episode of the Twilight Zone.)
o "I Shot an Arrow in the Air" -- Click here and watch the episode of the Twilight
Zone. Please be patient with the few advertisements at the beginning.
o Assignment sheet
Exam Essays -- Choose two and be prepared to write the essay in class on exam day.
(Honors students see me for sheet.)
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Resources
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Novel
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www.gerenser.com/lotf/ -- Excellent site to help think about the novel.
 Map of the Island -- Good to get a geographical image of the setting.
 Symbolism Chart
Lord of the Flies - Lo-Fat Version -- sponsored by Homework Online
 Another map of the island.
Game -- Play this interactive game at the Nobel prize site. It's good for a review.
ABCs -- PowerPoint that works well for a review.
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Reviews
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Biography
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"Looking Anew at 'Lord of the Flies'" on All Things Considered
William Golding Official Site -- This site offers a bunch of information on
Golding. Also has a section where you can submit questions.
o William Golding--Biography -- This is a very brief biography from the Nobel
Prize site. It also includes Golding's acceptance speech.
o Golding's Obituary
Man's Inhumanity: Some links to sites that illustrate some of man's inhumanity.
o WWII Headlines from BBC
o My Lai Massacre
 Murder in the Name of War - My Lai -- article from the BBC
o Cambodian Killing Fields
o 1994 Rwanda Genocide
 The Triumph of Evil -- a PBS site on Rwanda's genocide.
 Rwanda: How the genocide happened
o Pinochet's rule: Repression and Economic Success --The BBC
o Vlad the Impaler
o Most Notorious Serial Killers -- From the Crime Library at Court TV.
o Abu Ghraib Torture and Prisoner Abuse
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Scarred by History: The Rape of Nanjing - The BBC
Trail of Tears
Firebombing
 Dresden
o The Holocaust
o Hiroshima
o "After the Flood"--This episode of This American Life is a collection of personal
narratives from people who were victims of Hurricane Katrina. The site offers
audio and a pdf transcript.
Human Good Deeds -- Some examples to get you thinking about some good things
that humans can do.
o Habitat for Humanity
o "Red Cross Helps Wyoming Town after Tornado"
o Cabbie Praised For Good Deed
o Mother Teresa – Biography
o Martin Luther King
o Doctors without Borders
o Make a Wish Foundation
o Famous Philanthropists
o Famous and Celebrity Philanthropists
o United Nations
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Intertextuality
The Bacchae | The Coral Island | Bible
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Euripides's The Bacchae
Compare the scene where Simon comes down the mountain into the ritual dance of Jack's boys
to the following scene from The Bachae.
In the fifth episode of the play, Pentheus's mother, Agave, and other women are dancing
when they see Pentheus in a tree. Pentheus is dressed as a woman, per Dionysus's
suggestion.
When Agave sees her son in the tree, she says,
We must take this climbing animal
or he will spread abroad the secrets
of our god-struck dance.
The messenger who relays the story says,
His mother
as the priestess of the bloodbath
was the first to fall upon him.
He snatched the headband off his hair
to let Agave, wretched woman, see
who it was and so not murder him.
He touched her on the cheek and cried:
"Mother, it is I, your child, your Pentheus,
born to you in Echion's house.
Have mercy on me, Mother,
and because of my msitakes do not kill your son--your son."
She was foaming at the mouth.
Her dilated eyeballs rolled.
Her mind was gone-possessed by Bacchus --she could not hear her son.
Gripping his left hand and forearm
and balancing her foot against the doomed man's ribs,
she dragged his arm off at the shoulder . . .
it was not her strength that did it
but the god's power seething in her hands.
Ino, active on the other side,
was ripping at his flesh;
and Autonoe now and the whole rabid pack were on him.
There was a single, universal howl:
the moans of Pentheus (so long as he had breath)
mixed with their impassioned yells.
One woman carried off an arm,
another a foot, boot and all;
they shredded his ribs--clawed them clean.
Not a finger but it dripped with crimson
as they tossed the flesh of Pentheus like a ball.
His body lies in pieces:
some of it under the gaunt rocks,
some of it in the deep green thickets of the woods-by no means easy to recover . . .
except for his head,
which his mother, seizing in her hands,
has planted on the thyrsus point. (114 -15)
When Agave returns home she thinks her son's head is a lion's head. And she boasts about
the hunt:
Cadmus's daughters
handled this creature after
I did; but only after . . .
Oh what a beautiful hunt!
Come, join in the feast. (117)
The Bacchae. Three Plays of Euripides. Trans. Paul Roche. New York: Norton, 1974.
You should see some similiarities from the passages above to scenes in Lord of the Flies.
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R. M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island
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Read at Gutenburg.org
buy or read reviews at Amazon.com
Golding wrote Lord of the Flies as a response to The Coral Island. The novel is mentioed a few
times in LOTF. The boys refer to it after they decide they are going to have a bunch of fun in
chapter two. The captain at the end says,
I know. Jolly good show. Like the Coral Island.
The characters' names in The Coral Island are Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin. These boys survive by
hunting pig. They deal with real, external beasts: cannibals and pirates.
If you read the two novels together, you might argue that Ballantyne is optimistic about human
nature and Golding is a bit more pessimistic.
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Bible
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Quotes below are taken from the Bible Online
Simon
Many readers see Simon as a Christ figure. Many readers see the theme of the book being about
the original sin and the fall of man. Lord of the Flies is an English translation of Beelzebub ,
which often times is taken to mean Satan or a lesser devil. Golding, whatever his belief, used
ideas from the Bible. Below I outline some of the connections. A question you might keep in
mind is what does Golding achieve by making references to the Bible?
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What's in a name?
o Disciple Peter's name, in the Bible, was Simon
o In Luke 23:26, we learn that in the story of the crucifixion, a man named Simon
carries the cross.
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And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a
Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that
he might bear it after Jesus.
Simon/Jesus Comparisons
o They both prophesize
 Simon in LOTF, tells Ralph that he will survive: "[Y]ou will get all right"
 Simon does include himself in the prophesy; thus, one can infer he
has prophesized his own death.
 Jesus on several occasions in the Bible predicts his own death.
o They both feed people.
 Jesus feeds his followers with bread and fish
 Matthew 36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave
thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples
to the multitude. 37 And they did all eat, and were filled
 Other passages: Mark 6: 34-44; 8: 1-9; John 6: 5-13
 Simon feeds the littluns in the novel with fruit
 "Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the
choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the
endless, outstretched hands" (Golding 56).
o Both withdraw themselves from society
 According to the story, Jesus "withdrew himself into the wilderness, and
prayed" (Luke 5:16).
 Simon also retreats into the wildnerness: "Simon turned away from them
and went where the just perceptible path led him. Soon high jungle closed
in. [. . .] He looked over his shoulder [. . .] and glanced swiftly round to
confirm that he was utterly alone" (Golding 56).
o Both fast
 Simon "shifted restlessly but there was no avoiding the sun. Presently he
was thirsty, and then very thirsty. He continued to sit" (Golding 132-33,
emphasis mine).
 According to the Bible, Jesus went forty days and nights without food:
"Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of
the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was
afterward an hungered" (Matthew 4: 1-2).
Luke 23:26
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Remember that Simon is taunted by the Lord of the Flies.
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Crown of thorns
 Simon "bashed into a tree" and "a white spot on his forehead turned red
and trickled" (Golding 104).
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imitation of the crown of thorns.
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After Simon dies, the boys remember that Simon said something about "a body on
the hill." Simon was referring to the parachutist, but the body on a hill could
evoke the image of Jesus on the mountain.
Original sin
Garden of Eden
the beastie is described in the LOTF as a snake, which creates the image of the
serpent tempting Eve.
Similarities between the story of Cain and Abel and Jack and Ralph.
Pork in the Old Testament is considered filthy and is forbidden. Jack and his
hunters hunt pigs.
 Leviticus 11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted,
yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you. 8 Of their flesh shall ye
not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
Beelzebub
 Look up on Bible Online Matthew 12: 22-28 for a passage that mentions
Beelzebub, which translated means Lord of the Flies.
Work Consulted: Olsen, Kirstin. Understanding Lord of the Flies. Westport: Greenwood, 2000.
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Humanities/Connections
Literature is merely one piece of humanities. The nice thing about literature is that it deals with
themes that are dealt with in other novels, songs, paintings, movies, and other artistic areas.
Literature:
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
o Novel shares many of the same themes.
John Dollar by Marianne Wiggins, who was once married to Salman Rushdie.
o Here is a bit of a review by School Library Journal: Described by the author as a
"female Lord of the Flies," this book is every bit as chilling and brutal as
Golding's.
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
o Here is a bit of the Amazon.com editorial review: "First published in 1929, A High
Wind in Jamaica has been compared to Lord of the Flies in its unflinching
portrayal of innocence corrupted, but Richard Hughes is the supreme ironist
William Golding never was. He possesses the ability to be one moment
thoroughly inside a character's head, and the next outside of it altogether,
hilariously commenting."
o In an interview at Purdue University, Golding acknowledged the similarities
between this novel and his. He said he didn't read it until afte rhe published his
novel.
"The Destructors" by Graham Greene
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
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Here is the opening lines of a review by January 27, 1975 edition Publisher's
Weekly: January 27th"This tale of humanity after atomic war brings to mind
"Lord of the Flies" and will have similar icy and compulsive effects on
readers.Here are some professional reviews.
 Here are some more reviews of the book.
Movies/TV
Most of the movies below are rated R, so please get parent permission if you are under 17.
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Apocalypse Now (movie version of Heart of Darkness)
No Escape
The Beach
Lord of the Flies (1963)
Lord of the Flies (1990)
"I Shot an Arrow into the Air" from The Twilight Zone.
o A decent episode of The Twilight Zone. Definitely deals with the themes of
inherent evil in human nature and survival. It's a bit superficial because of the 30
minute time frame.
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"Das Bus" from season 9 of The Simpsons.
Lifeboat (1944)
Lost -- With a plane crash, boar hunting, a character named Jack, this show shares
thematic ideas with LOTF.
Music
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"Fable" -- by Gatsby's American Dream from the album Volcano (Click this link and go
to the bottom of page to listen to clip of song)
o Thank you Rob W. from 5th hour (2005) for selection. Song sounds like the band
Bush. The lyrics are from the point of view of the boys on the island.
"Shadows and Tall Trees" -- by U2. This is the title of one of the chapters. Click here to
listen or search on Youtube.
Feel free to write me emails with names of songs, poems, movies, books, paintings, and so forth that you think
connect well to Lord of the Flies.