English 10
Quote Quiz
Lord of the Flies
“Now we come to the most important thing. I’ve been thinking. I was thinking while we were climbing the mountain.” He flashed a conspiratorial grin at the other two. “and on the beach just now. This is what I thought. We want to have fun. And we want to be rescued.” The passionate noise of agreement from the assembly hit him like a wave and he lost his thread. Who said this? __________________________________
“I got the conch! Just you listen! The first thing we ought to have made was shelters down there by the beach. It wasn’t half cold down there in the night. But the first time Ralph says ‘fire’ you goes howling and screaming up this here mountain. Like a pack of kids!..how can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?” Who said this, and why? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
“He’s queer. He’s funny.” Who is being referred to here? _________________________
“There was a sudden bright explosion and corkscrew trail across the sky; then darkness again and stars. There was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs.” Who or what is being referred to here, and what did the boys think it was? __________________________________________
“Grownups know things,’ said Piggy. ‘They ain’t afraid of the dark. They’d meet and have tea and discuss. Then things ‘ud be all right—‘” Why is this statement ironic? ___________________________________________________________________
“All at once, Robert was screaming and struggling with the strength of frenzy. Jack had him by the hair and was brandishing his knife. Behind him was Roger, fighting to get close. The chant rose ritually, as at the last moment of a dance or a hunt.” What was going on here, and why? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
“He’s like Piggy. He says things like Piggy. He isn’t a proper chief.” Who said this? _____________________
“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!” said the head…”You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?” Who is this, and who is he talking to? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
‘The circle became a horseshoe. A thing was crawling out of the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly. The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain. The beast stumbled in to the horseshoe. “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”…only the beast lay still, a few yards from the sea. Even in the rain they could see how small a beast it was; and already its blood was staining the sand.’ Who is in the middle getting pummeled, and how is this symbolic to the story? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
“That was murder…I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want to go home.”
“It was an accident,” said Piggy stubbornly, “and that’s that.”
Who is the unidentified speaker here, and why is he frightened? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Memory of the dance that none of them had attended shook all four boys convulsively.’ What happened at the dance that they didn’t want to admit being there?
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The chief led then, trotting steadily, exulting in his achievement. He was a chief now in truth; and he made stabbing motions with his spear. From his left hand dangled Piggy’s broken glasses. Who is this? ________________________________
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