1. Lord of the Flies
Review Game

2. Read each definition and choose the correct vocabulary word
Vocabulary to Know
Read each definition and choose the correct vocabulary word

3. To mock or taunt

4. Answer: Jeer

5. Thoughtfully agreed; concurred

6. Answer: Assented

7. Depressing; overwhelming

8. Answer: Oppressive

9. Commotion; riot

10. Answer: Tumult

11. Urged or drove forcefully

12. Answer: Compelled

13. Hostility; mutual hatred

14. Answer: Enmity

15. Walk at a leisurely pace

16. Answer: Saunter

17. In a manner of vicious hatred

18. Answer: Malevolently

19. Make gestures when speaking to show strong feelings

20. Answer: Gesticulate

21. Unable to speak clearly

22. Answer: Inarticulate

23. Not easily understood; mysterious

24. Answer: Inscrutable

25. Banned by morality or taste

26. Answer: Taboo

27. Detestable; unpleasant

28. Answer: Abominable

29. Decent; correct; fitting

30. Answer: Decorous

31. Contemptuous laughter; ridicule

32. Answer: Derision

33. Long, angry or violent speech

34. Answer: Tirade

35. Sly; surreptitious; underhanded

36. Answer: Furtive

37. Mournfully; regrettably

38. Answer: Lamentably

39. Mad; insane

40. Answer: Demented

41. Hung like decorations

42. Answer: Festooned

43. Anger due to unjust treatment

44. Answer: Indignation

45. Unspoken; implied

46. Answer: Tacit

47. Break; gap; pause

48. Answer: Hiatus

49. Obvious in an offensive manner

50. Answer: Blatant

51. Lost its attraction

52. Answer: Palled

53. Feeling shame or humiliation

54. Answer: Crestfallen

55. Reprimand; criticize; reprove

56. Answer: Rebuke

57. Massive; clumsy; enormous

58. Answer: Elephantine

59. Looked with annoyance or anger

60. Answer: Glowered

61. Pungent or bitter odor or taste

62. Answer: Acrid

63. Nearsightedness

64. Answer: Myopia

65. Discouraging; dismaying

66. Answer: Daunting

67. Emotional intensity; passion

68. Answer: Fervor

69. Distrustful of human nature

70. Answer: Cynical

71. Incapable of being affected

72. Answer: Impervious

73. The author’s attitude towards the subject

74. Answer: Tone

75. The reader’s feelings towards the subject

76. Answer: Mood

77. People are born inherently evil

78. Answer: Ignoble savage

79. People are born inherently good

80. Answer: Noble savage

81. A story that represents a bigger idea to teach a lesson for moral or political reasons

82. Answer: Allegory

83. Let’s look at the bigger picture and literary devices now… Read the following questions and write the BEST answer for each

84. Ralph and Jack are which type of character to each other?

85. Answer: Foil

86. What is Ralph’s main motivation?

87. Answer: To get rescued

88. What is Piggy’s main motivation?

89. Answer: To help Ralph

90. What is Jack’s main motivation?

91. Answer: To have power

92. Who or what symbolizes pure goodness and innocence?

93. Answer: Simon

94. Who or what symbolizes hope, salvation, and rescue?

95. Answer: The signal fire

96. Who or what symbolizes the evil in all mankind?

97. Answer: The Beast

98. Who or what symbolizes anarchy and savagery?

99. Answer: Jack

100. Who or what symbolizes the attraction of evil?

101. Answer: Lord of the Flies

102. Who or what symbolizes the Garden of Eden and the corruption of man?

103. Answer: The island

104. Who or what symbolizes knowledge and insight as well as representing the status of civilization on the island?

105. Answer: Piggy’s specs

106. Who or what symbolizes man’s penchant for causing harm to others?

107. Answer: Roger

108. Who represents the Superego?

109. Answer: Ralph

110. Who represents the ID?

111. Answer: Jack

112. Who represents the Ego?

113. Answer: Piggy

114. When does this story take place?

115. Answer: During WWII

116. What type of government does Jack represent?

117. Answer: A dictatorship—He doesn’t let others speak (Hitler)

118. What type of government does Ralph represent?

119. Answer: A democracy—He lets others speak (Britain/Churchill)

120. Lord of the Flies is an allegory teaching about what 2 things?

121. Answer: Good vs Evil and WWII

122. What does darkness represent?

123. Answer: Fear

124. What does the “mask” do and represent?

125. Answer: Allows the boys to hide their civility

126. When the wind is blowing the deceased parachute man around, imagery is used. What is Golding trying to teach us in this moment?

127. Answer: We have no control/ We’re puppets

128. Jack is described as a stain at one point in the novel
Jack is described as a stain at one point in the novel. Why is this an accurate description of him?

129. Answer: He ruins everything he touches

130. What is the significance of the butterflies leaving and being replaced by flies in chapter 8?

131. Answer: Peace is gone and replaced by death and rotting civility

132. What does Golding feel about mankind’s nature?

133. Answer: He believes we’re all ignoble savages

134. What type of irony is used when Roger knocks the rock down, killing Piggy?

135. Answer: Situational Irony

136. What type of irony is used when the naval officer says the boys have been playing on the island?

137. Answer: Dramatic Irony

138. What is the significance of Percival forgetting his address at the end of the novel?

139. Answer: It shows he has forgotten his civility

140. Why did Golding choose to have the characters be children instead of adults?

141. Answer: to demonstrate that innocence is dead

142. What does Ralph’s “curtain” represent?

143. Answer: His fight against his savage side

144. Why did Golding choose a pig to be hunted?

145. Answer: Because it’s similar to humans, especially with its screams

146. Who or what allegorically represents Hitler?

147. Answer: Jack

148. Who or what allegorically represents the Jewish population?

149. Answer: Piggy

150. Who or what allegorically represents Britain/Winston Churchill?

151. Answer: Ralph

152. Who or what allegorically represent(s) the bystanders under Hitler’s rule?

153. Answer: Samneric

154. Which theme is demonstrated with this quote: “We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages”?

155. Answer: Civilization vs. Savagery

156. Which theme is demonstrated with this quote: “The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away”?

157. Answer: Civilization vs. Savagery

158. Which theme is demonstrated with this quote: “Which is better—to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?”

159. Answer: Civilization vs. Savagery

160. Which theme is demonstrated with this quote: “The thing is—fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream”?

161. Answer: Fear

162. Which theme is demonstrated with this quote: “Things are breaking up
Which theme is demonstrated with this quote: “Things are breaking up. I don’t understand why. We began well; we were happy. And then---”?

163. Answer: Civilization vs. Savagery

164. Which themes are demonstrated with this quote: “Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt or kill! I’m part of you. Close, close, close. I’m the reason why it’s no go. Why things are what they are”?

165. Answer: Fear & Civilization vs. Savagery

166. Which theme is demonstrated when the boys kill Simon?

167. Answer: Loss of innocence

168. Which theme is demonstrated through Ralph and Jack’s struggle to be in charge?

169. Answer: Power vs. Leadership

170. What is Golding trying to teach us about fear?

171. Answer: Fear can consume us

172. What is Golding trying to teach us about power and leadership?

173. Answer: It is better to be a leader than have power because having power can corrupt a person

174. What is Golding trying to teach us about civilization and savagery?

175. Answer: Civilization is doomed to collapse due to people’s savage nature

176. What is Golding trying to teach us about the loss of innocence?

177. Answer: Due to mankind’s savage nature which leads to war, people no longer have any innocence

178. What war did Golding serve in which influenced this novel and its themes?

179. Answer: WWII

180. What represents intellect, and how is it treated?

181. Answer: Piggy’s specs, and it is not valued